Follow me web surfing mode is slow

Unlike other conferencing systems who connect every participant to the server, our systems connect every participant with each other. This is called peer-to-peer connection. See diagram below. The one on the right depicts peer-to-peer connection.


In any peer-to-peer connection, the more people who gets on the network, the larger the ring will be. Everything you share including slides and web browser needs to travel through each person's computer. The larger the group is, the slower this tends to be. And because the connection of every computer in the group varies so will the speed. This is why sometimes a slide will load fast for some, slow or even skip ahead for others.

Even though you can have a large number of people connected to the room, this will affect the performance in particular the web browsing performance.

For this reason, we recommend you to keep the number of slides down. It also helps if the size of each page is small. So if you can optimize each slide image, that will help. The same is true when viewing a web page. If the page has lots of video content or is just big in general, this has to travel through the pipeline so to speak and can affect the quality for some participants.