Well, we are likely going to have different setups (including some investing some effort) on Saturday, so you can see a few things in action. As a very rough rule, standalone application works better than Chrome works better than Firefox. And a desktop computer might be a better choice than a smartphone. Ethernet beats WLAN. And it helps if the other people in the house aren't using their quality time away from you for watching video streams over the same Internet connection. There may be a point in foregoing tremolo: it's hard on microphones and audio compression.
I don’t know the answer but it might be interesting to do a forum based Jamulus experiment at some point. See what we can do. Provably time to revisit software arrangers too, probably some improvements from last time.
After this Zoom session, there are a few more recommendations: if you are wanting to do music together, headphones are a requirement. With loudspeakers instead, the computer has to do "echo cancellation" which doesn't really work with simultaneous sound sources, particularly ones that are supposed to be in harmony. Personally I use FM headphones since they don't incur additional processing delays like digital headphones (for example Bluetooth) do. Being able to move freely is pretty important to me. In contrast, the kind of additional noise you get because of the analog signal is not much of a distraction compared to the other online problems.
It is annoying that there is no "check what I am sending" button (Zoom is not alone in that: it's an annoyance with basically every other system I know): if you use loudspeakers and no echo cancellation, anything somebody else says goes back from your loudspeakers into your microphone and gets repeated as an echo. But the echo is not heard by the person with the problematic setup, just by everybody else.
For sure: my advice against digital headphones because of the additional latency they introduce was for playing together, but Zoom doesn't really work for that anyway. When we are doing an experiment with Jamulus, they would be unadvised. For Zoom, they will work fine.
And let’s follow up on talking about memorizing and learning b ear. 
I'm good for Feb 4th.Thanks everyone! I had a great time talking to you all. I’m glad we got our configurations sorted and we were able to hear everyone. Should go smooth next time.
Gotta make sure I warm up a little before I play at the next one.
So, one way to go would be alternating Saturday and Sunday, every other week, keeping with 18:00 UTC. This would put us at Sunday, Feb 4, 2024. What do you all think?
It may be related to where you downloaded the asio4all driver. I downloaded and set it up a while back and am not sure now where the best, safest place to download it is. Maybe someone can help?
They should work just fine for Zoom using either Bluetooth or cable, but for doing Jamulus, cable would be superior.
Lots of software wants ASIO4All (or better, a soundcard with a native ASIO driver, ASIO being a low-latency sound system for Windows). The ASIO4All driver itself is free I think (I use Linux myself, so cannot speak with confidence), so there may be a temptation by freeloaders to bundle it with crapware you don't want. Might be worth trying to figure out a sensible source. I'd expect that if http://jamulus.io gives you a link, that should be clean.
