Been a reasonably productive couple of weeks. I finally have the computer I needed from the uni to start running test servers on, so as soon as the 2nd review is out of the way in a couple of weeks I can resume my practical testing.
I also (I think) have my TOR finalised - I have my 2 reasonable research topics to do chapters on:
1. Evaluation & comparison of VoIP and Video Conferencing to inform practical work
2. Performing and documenting formal testing of network services
Hopefully this should be the last re-draft, but if they keep giving me hoops I guess I have to keep jumping. Now I just need to decide which one of these to use for the research chapter that needs submitting at my second review. And of course write the damn thing.
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Sunday 4 January 2009
Video Testing 1
Performed first video conferencing test with TokBox today. Notes can be found here. Further testing under different conditions necessary. Other tester connected to internet via 3G mobile internet. While this provides interesting info on the use of these services from varying types of network connections it does not provide an accurate picture of the services using standard broadband and associated network speeds, which is a base line that is required for accurate testing.
Also spoke to other tester via Skype. No notes produced for this yet, but performance was considerably better than that of TokBox. Will produce and publish notes asap.
Also spoke to other tester via Skype. No notes produced for this yet, but performance was considerably better than that of TokBox. Will produce and publish notes asap.
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Friday 2 January 2009
Blue Box
The Blue Box VoIP Security Podcast.
Potentially useful to the project, logged for further investigation...
Potentially useful to the project, logged for further investigation...
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Video Post
A test video post using Tokbox
Really need to rope in some victims to help me test the conferencing side of it. I hope the lag isn't there when it's running live.
Really need to rope in some victims to help me test the conferencing side of it. I hope the lag isn't there when it's running live.
Thursday 1 January 2009
More Tokbox
I've had a bit more of a chance to play with this now and there are some pretty interesting features. One of the most useful looking ones in terms of helping my project research is the conference function whereby you send your participants a link to a web based video conference. This is exactly the sort of thing the uni is wanting to do, so I think further testing of Tokbox and the capabilities of its API definitely needs to be done.
I need to get a couple of people to help me with the testing of the multi-user functions and start looking at how it all works.
On sidenote, the Tokbox site has a public posts section. I'm still poking around here looking at different things, but straight away when you start looking at peoples posts and comments you pick up an undercurrent of unpleasantness. It has the potential to be an excellent platform for communication and public debate, but at the moment my impressions are that there is a lot of unneccessary arguing and sniping. Very unfortunate. On the flip side, the dreadful public post I foolishly had up there for 5 minutes (before getting rid of it until I can get myself looking presentable enough for another attempt!) gathered an encouraging comment within minutes of going up, so maybe I'm wrong and have caught the site on a bad day?
Social aspects aside (this was just a side note as it isn't relevant to the project), Tokboxs video mail and conferencing features look very promising.
I need to get a couple of people to help me with the testing of the multi-user functions and start looking at how it all works.
On sidenote, the Tokbox site has a public posts section. I'm still poking around here looking at different things, but straight away when you start looking at peoples posts and comments you pick up an undercurrent of unpleasantness. It has the potential to be an excellent platform for communication and public debate, but at the moment my impressions are that there is a lot of unneccessary arguing and sniping. Very unfortunate. On the flip side, the dreadful public post I foolishly had up there for 5 minutes (before getting rid of it until I can get myself looking presentable enough for another attempt!) gathered an encouraging comment within minutes of going up, so maybe I'm wrong and have caught the site on a bad day?
Social aspects aside (this was just a side note as it isn't relevant to the project), Tokboxs video mail and conferencing features look very promising.
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Tokbox Update
I decided to have another play with this today, and it's started working. I think there may have been something up with the release of flash I was using as other sites using similar tech didn't work either.
First impressions: Tokbox is a very interesting idea with a lot of potential. I especially like the video mail feature, could be very useful. My only gripe is that there is a lag in the audio syncing to the video, but it's not an app-killer. More on this as I play.
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First impressions: Tokbox is a very interesting idea with a lot of potential. I especially like the video mail feature, could be very useful. My only gripe is that there is a lag in the audio syncing to the video, but it's not an app-killer. More on this as I play.
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