Recommendations for webcasting/video conferenciing?

[Jared Watkins]

Hewitt Tech wrote:

>I have a new client that wanted to setup a webcast from his hotel room. I
>explained to him that it is necessary to have control of the firewall/router
>so that the appropriate ports can be forwarded and that it was unlikely that
>the hotel chain would be that cooperative. Sure enough although the folks at
>the 800 number who perform administrative functions for the chains hotels
>tried to help, they weren't able to accomodate the guest's needs.
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>Does anyone have any recommendations for some kind of webcasting service
>that could be used under those circumstances? As an interim fix I had my
>client record his session and I placed the MPEG4 file on my web site so that
>his users could access it.  Additionally, it would be very useful to set up
>a video conferencing link so that the client can carry on discussions with
>business partners. Is there any way to do this from behind a firewall that
>you can't configure?
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I wrote about setting up something similar last weekend...  check out

http://infinitusi.blogsite.org/archives/13-It-Slices-it-Dices..-Another-Devil-Linux-Project.html

It's not exactly a webcast... but it does meet the requirement of no FW 
setup.. so you may find that helpful.

Jared