What are you doing at quarter past? WebEx wants you on calls then, to ease corona-congestion Cisco's Webex collaboration service has urged users to turn off video and avoid starting meetings on the hour, to help ease pressure on public networks during the coronavirus-avoidance crisis. The service's status page says the global surge of remote workers caused by the virus is "putting a tremendous strain on regional …
This is a lesson most unix admins can heed as well: do not terminate every job in cron onto the hour. While the "heartbeat" may look nice in rrdtool, a constant "mumble" is much easier on the heartbeat and won generate loadspikes where all guests compete for the same CPU. Especially midnight.
After using all of the services listed over the past 2 weeks, they've all had issues to a lesser or greater extent. The most reliable one so far has been Microsoft Teams (It surprised me as well), but that could be that we've got a dedicated enterprise cloud server setup for it (as opposed to the general cloud service for the unwashed masses). Webex has long been known to suffer from issues using a computer for audio and we've used ...HAS JOINED THE MEETING..m since calls work better, as for video that's normally LINE MUTED..less you have a crap home/office broadband.
Also Teams doesn't suffer from Skype for Businesses anBONG!..ng when someone joins the meeting bEfOrE tHiNgS sOuNd LiiiiiiiKe ThEy'Re In A fIsHtAn..............
And don't even get me started on Zoom. Great with a 300mb line, crap with whatever wet piece string others on the conference were using. Especially if they're trying to stream a video over it (only just got the dried blood out of my ears from that one).
On the flip side. Who'd've thought that the dream of video calling from 2001:A space odyssey would happen because of a virus? (Though I still call BS on that scene since the call worked seamlessly and with perfect audio).
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