How to choose the best video calling method<article>
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<p>It should be such a simple thing: you’re just going to make a video call. If it were a phone call, you’d dial a number and you’d either get through or you’d be directed to the other person’s voicemail.</p><p>But with video, there are too many variables. Which service will you use? Which software? Is the other person on my buddy list? Are they online? What if you want more than one person on the call? Do all participants have sufficient bandwidth? What if you want to share a screen? And on and on. You can’t “just” make a video call with a random person without thinking through these things.</p><p>Even with all those questions answered, technology might not cooperate. I used to have a regular video conference with two other people across the country using Skype, but more often than not, the connection was awful. After dropping and reestablishing the call a few times, we’d give up and switch to Google+ Hangouts, which behaved better for us. But in recent months, the opposite has happened repeatedly—Google+ Hangouts first drops video, then audio, and we end up switching to Skype, which has been weirdly reliable (given our history with the service).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2856995/how-to-choose-the-best-video-calling-method.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to choose the best video calling method
