Simple Software Internet Voice Conferencing Communications

Designing a room


  1. This is a list of currently defined rooms. The Add/Update button and the delete button.
  2. The title of the room
  3. The moderator password
  4. Maximum number of users allowed in this room
  5. Is the room enabled or not.
  6. What to do when the room expires
  7. Date / time room expires
  8. Is this a template room (See Chapter 4 for more information)
  9. Require User Logon? This allows for individual or wildcarded user and moderator logon. See the User Authentication tab for records.
  10. Allow session recording - contact support@howudodat.com for details on how to play back a recorded session.
  11. Dictionary File. This is the name of a file used for text substitution in the text chat window (ie, you can replace sh*t with crap). The server also has a global dictionary file that applies to all rooms. This file is C:\chatterbox\global.dict and can be edited with notepad.
  12. If you provide a room control panel for the room moderator, this is the url to it's location.
  13. The title displayed on the client.
  14. If you want this room to display a different co-brand url than what is configured for the server, enter it here.
  15. A welcome message to display in the client gui. If %ALIAS% is used here, the user's alias will be inserted into the message
  16. Select one of the default layouts for the room.
  17. You can enter a custom layout for the room here.


Voice Options


  1. Voice Quality - High quality uses a 20kbps GSM codec. This setting on a decent internet connection will achieve telephone quality voice. 9kbps is the next lower setting, this has some minor degradation of vocie quality. 6kbps has even more degradation, and 4kbps sounds like 2 cans on a string underwater. It is really designed for extremely slow links, or in situations where voice quality is not an issue.
  2. Is this an echo room. This is useful for creating a test/support room. Anything said by any user will be echoed back. Note: we recommend setting a talk timer for 5 or 10 seconds if creating an echo room. (see #5)
  3. Select this to disable the FIFO queueing system. With the queue disabled, the first person to hit CTRL will talk, and then after that person is done the next immediate CTRL key pressed will get to talk.
  4. Full duplex. This gives the ability for more than one person to talk at a time. Selecting this disables the queue. Please note, the server does not blend any of the data streams. We do not recommend using full duplex on any rooms where more than 2 persons are allowed in the room.
  5. Talk Time. By default this is 0, or indefinate. Enter the maximum number of seconds any user can talk at one time.
  6. Disable the voice when there is no moderator in the room. This prevents users from sitting in rooms and consuming bandwidth when there is no active presentation, or seminar etc.


Text Options


  1. The types of text chat to allow.


Collaboration Options


  1. Allow Moderator File Transfer
  2. Allow User File Transfer
  3. Allow Moderator Web Synch (Web Touring or Co-Browsing)
  4. Allow users to synch web pages with other users
  5. Allow presentation sharing
  6. Amount of disk space to limit for this rooms presentations
  7. Allow users to move forward and backward through presentations independent of the presenter
  8. News is persistent text chat.
  9. Allow Application Sharing
  10. Refresh rate for Application Sharing. Note we do not recommend any setting less than 500ms
  11. Allow whiteboarding
  12. The color the moderator name appears in in the user list.
  13. Allow users to browse web pages
  14. Allow users to configure a user home page - a page that might show bio information on that user
  15. The starting web page for the integrated browser


NOTE: Anytime you make changes to a room, remember to hit "Add/Update" to save your changes.

NOTE: Some options dynamically update all clients in the room as soon as the changes are saved. The rest of the options take effect the next time a user enters the room.