PowerPoint Broadcasting over WLAN connection

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Kamrul Anwar

Hello,
I am not sue my subject gives you an idea about what I
need to know from you people.

Let me explain my scenario. I am trying to broadcast
powerpoint over WLAN from peresenter's laptop. Now, I did
but it experiencing time delay between the presenter and
the viewer. The targetted bandwidth was 176 Kbps. Is
there any way I can reduce that bandwidth so that my end
user with WLAN connection will be able to view that
presentation. I am trying to bring 100Kbps or less than
that.

I will be glad if anyone could help me in this. I need it
urgent..
 
Hi Kamrul,

This behavior is by design. It's the nature of broadcast that not everyone
receiving the broadcast will receive it at the same time. Think of it like
a 30 minute television broadcast over satellite. It doesn't really matter
if it appears on a TV set on the planet Mars 4 to 20 minutes later than it
appears on a TV set in France because each person is only in one location
and they aren't aware of the delay. To each person the broadcast appears
fine and lasts 30 minutes so the experience is the same for each audience
member (just not at the same time because each destination is a different
distance from the source and the broadcast travels at a uniform speed).
Where a problem can occur is when you are broadcasting two things at two
different speeds. For example trying to conduct a phone conversation with
an audience while doing a presentation broadcast to them will make the
delay between presenter and audience noticeable because a phone
conversation travels nearly instantaneously while a broadcast doesn't. To
avoid this, use the audio ability of the broadcast feature instead of using
the telephone.

Remember that online broadcast in PowerPoint (just like a television
broadcast) is not intended to be an interactive collaboration between
presenter and audience, but simply a way to push the same content out to
multiple locations providing a consistent experience for each viewer. For
more interactivity/collaboration between the presenter and the audience you
might want to look into various presentation conferencing or interactive
webcasting solutions available including Microsoft Office Live Meeting.

http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX010909711033

If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that PowerPoint
should provide some real-time two-way collaboration and/or remote
presenting capabilities beyond what is currently possible with PowerPoint
alone (or even with PowerPoint in conjunction with Microsoft Office Live
Meeting), don't forget to send your feedback to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also why it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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