Video conferencing

My dad's after a cheap solution for video conferencing (multiple peer
to multiple peer) over the innernet. Our guys at work said this was
very difficult and expensive as video streams had to be repackaged and
resent exponentially increasing bandwidth needs. The I found this
thing called Mebeam (mebeam.com) that purports to do this for free.

Anyone know anything about this? Is it possible to have say 14 people
from around the uk on home broadband connections usefully conferencing
with each other?

 

Doesn't answer your questions, but I've seen 6 people (including me)
in 3 countries on Skype, and that was okay. Mayne Skype would do?

 

So you see them all onscreen at the same time?

 

I've seen 20 or 30 people using Evo, but with only a handful of
active participants.

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yes.

I used to use CuSeeMe for this about 10 years ago, but it's fallen by
the wayside these days.

Netmeeting can do it - if they're windows users, just run conf.exe -
should do the trick.

Or try CamFrog.

 

Yes, although, iirc, each is a unique window, which could get
cumbersome for *lots* of peeps. Although it does have the advantage of
being able to shut particularly ugly people out.