Zoom (and other) online meetings

I'm gonna disagre with these other ass clowns (except maybe @mbalbritton )

You DEFINITELY need to use the camera.

Follow these steps:

1 - go to a site like this and find about a dozen hilarious and random images / locatiosn to set for your background.

35 best zoom backgrounds | Zencal Blog

Meetings on Zoom can be divided into two categories: those that people love and those that are boring.
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2 - Zoom is generally pretty good at tracking just your head and cropping you into the background, but its effectiveness depends on the distance from the camera.
3 - Pick 1, then do a practice session w/a friend and find the max distance you can sit away from the camera before the algorithm fails. You'll know bc your head will randomly pop in and out of the frame.
4 - During the meeting, (a) change the background every 5 minutes to something else (b) be sure to sit right at that exact threshold spot where the autocrop fails so you wraith in and out of the background constantly.

Pro tip: Zoom allows you to set what your visible name is. Zaphod Beeblebrox ftw.
 
OK, first meeting was a success! Wasn't so bad, once I got settled in, and all was good.

My Internet is not good out here. I have 2 unlimited hotspots that I use, one from AT&T, the other is TMobile. Sometimes one is better, sometimes the other. It can vary minute-by-minute. Over the weekend, the average upload on each was running 8-15 Mbps, download 1 to 3 Mbps. So, I did some hunting, found an app that bonds them together. It's called Speedify. Instead of just failover, it actually combines the up and down from each. Test I just ran was 42 down, 7 upstream.

At only one point during the call did it start to stumble. The AT&T hotspot had dropped to just a few Kbps. I moved it about a foot, and it then got 10Mbps downstream, and all was good.
 
kaiser715 said:
OK, first meeting was a success! Wasn't so bad, once I got settled in, and all was good.

My Internet is not good out here. I have 2 unlimited hotspots that I use, one from AT&T, the other is TMobile. Sometimes one is better, sometimes the other. It can vary minute-by-minute. Over the weekend, the average upload on each was running 8-15 Mbps, download 1 to 3 Mbps. So, I did some hunting, found an app that bonds them together. It's called Speedify. Instead of just failover, it actually combines the up and down from each. Test I just ran was 42 down, 7 upstream.

At only one point during the call did it start to stumble. The AT&T hotspot had dropped to just a few Kbps. I moved it about a foot, and it then got 10Mbps downstream, and all was good.
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So the big question is were you wearing pants?
 


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