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Home Wifi when hosting a Webinar
Hello all, Apologies if a topic has already started on this, I could not locate it. I have a general question about hosting webinars from home on my home wifi connection. I have run a few webi...
If you as the Organizer loose connection with the webinar, you have five minutes to reconnect before the webinar ends by itself.
I always have a second computer connected as an Organizer in case the main computer crashes. That second computer will maintain the webinar until I can get the main computer reconnected.
But you asked about the wifi going down. For my big webinars, I always have a remote person as a Co-Organizer. If I loose everything, that Co-Organizer can keep the webinar going until I can get reconnected.
If you as the Organizer loose connection with the webinar, you have five minutes to reconnect before the webinar ends by itself.
I always have a second computer connected as an Organizer in case the main computer crashes. That second computer will maintain the webinar until I can get the main computer reconnected.
But you asked about the wifi going down. For my big webinars, I always have a remote person as a Co-Organizer. If I loose everything, that Co-Organizer can keep the webinar going until I can get reconnected.
Hi Chris - thank you so much for your prompt reply. This is really interesting, and extremely positive news! Thank you!
I actually have a co-organiser with me on these webinars, to help with the Questions Panel. So, hopefully then, that means if my wifi goes down for any reason, the session will switch over to the Co-Organiser's Wifi? That's great news. Thank you.
Yes, any Organizer or Co-Organizer can keep the webinar going.
As a side note: If you are the only Organizer, and you voluntary leave the webinar, GoTo will ask if you want to promote an Attendee to be an Organizer to keep the webinar going.
Thank you Chris - so that means the allocated Attendee's wifi will take over? That's great to know. Thank you!
I appreciate your prompt attention to this question, it gives me one less thing to worry about on a webinar we are running this afternoon. 🙂
Many thanks!
Rach
I just want to mention here, that we increased the event timeout period to closer to 30 minutes without an Organizer present.
