What's your flavour of screen sharing?

Sandesh M Patil

Cisco Webex during calls with customer Lynch during internal meetings

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Marc Clifton

Things I've use: Skype is ok (I use the personal version) but is totally un-intuitive as to how to set up screen sharing. Team Viewer: when it works, I really like it. It's fast, the file transfer is fast, the only thing I don't like is when it thinks I'm using it for business purposes when I'm not. Kaseya: Totally sucks. Slow, FTP is pathetic, 50% of the time it fails to connect, and then FTP times out after 1 or 2 minutes of inactivity. GoToMyPC: Still one of the best, and I'm willing to pay for it. WebEx: Great, a bit confusing sometimes ScreenHero: The one time I tried it, it failed miserably, they were "upgrading" I think because they were being acquired by some other company? uberconference: Not bad, but for the audio connection, the hold music is cute once, annoying ever after. join.me: Fallback for when everything else fails for one reason or other. Marc

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Nagy Vilmos

As I only need to share the screen, demos to clients etc, file transfer is not important. Skype is canned and TeamViewer is still in with a chance. I may go back to WebEx, used previously, if one of the freebies totally fails.

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Ron Anders

You mean like for tech support? Before they sold off and turned into Dracula, we bought a single tech license of screen connect and put if on a win7 box in our office. Backed it up nightly with acronis because it allows us to have Logmein rescue style access to any little old lady we might need to help out from afar. It was $300.00- one time. And it is the best thing ever. Especially when snowed in. Now, they want the moon on a subscription.

Nagy Vilmos

Maybe for support down the line, but this is for demoing to customers - we'll share our screen with them.

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MarkTJohnson

I'm in a mixed group, some silver boxes some black boxes, Lync/Skype works well with my black box brethren. With the Silver boxes we tend to use Zoom, the only drawback is that meetings can only last 40 minutes. Me, I'm a black box.

stoneyowl2

I (and the company I am working for) use join.me - it is free and works reasonably well.

kmoorevs

At work we use the paid version of GoToAssist. It's been very reliable. I also use the free version of TeamViewer for personal use. I'd recommend either. :)

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Kirill Illenseer

To answer the question: My flavour depends on the circumstances, that is the use case. What's your use case?

rtpHarry

I have started using Zoho Meeting, http://join.zoho.com/ its quick and easy and free for low usage. I use teamviewer for non-commercial purposes but their licences are too expensive for occasional usage.

grantl

I use a mixture of gotomeeting and webex. Gotomeeting is cheaper but some customers can only work with webex. Both are reliable high quality solutions. Used joinme in it's early days and it sucked, maybe it's better now?

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maze3

i was impressed when a sales person did a skype call and demoed the product with the skype screen sharing. when tried using again later with colleagues, learned both ends need camera and mic which I had not known. (maybe just a mic needed, not totally sure) So yeah, if have camera and mic, lots of people already have skype installed and using, so stick with that. also noticed HipChat had screen sharing as well recently.

David Days

I haven't seen anyone else mention it yet, but I use the paid version of Mikogo for business meetings with clients (when I'm working as a contractor). It works really nicely and I haven't hit the limit on participants yet. It includes VOIP that works really well, but the meeting is all-VOIP or all-phone (dialin), so the lowest common denominator wins if you have a mixed bag of attendees.

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MikeD 2

screen connect does that as well and call it a meeting

Kirk 10389821

GoToMeeting I use it nearly daily. Sometimes for 6hrs a day. Not great for Support, but for holding a meeting, recording the meeting, and dial in phone numbers and audio that ACTUALLY WORKS. 5 companies I work with are now subscribers, based on their positive experiences using it! Meetings start fast. I am about to launch one in 10 minutes. I have 4 scheduled for today. I work remotely. And I can start a meeting from my cell phone (android), and then transfer to the PC. Very handy. Not much on file transfer, but easy to send links to the other computer. HTH, Kirk Out!

milo xml

We use the AT&T Connect teleconference with Cisco Webex which works pretty well. AT&T Connect - AT&T Business[^]

Jim McCool

I regularly use both GoToMeeting and Join.me for international online meetings. I don't have a preference; both work very well to coordinate our activities over. The presenter's screen is displayed for all to see. Voice can be via your microphone or dial in for those who don't have a microphone on their PC.

Lost User

Since you said this was mainly for "demo" purposes, maybe "broadcasting" is an option? (using Screen Capture as the source; among other things) ... Create a Live Broadcasting session[^]

irneb

Previously I used TightVNC, though a pain to setup if the other party isn't exactly "literate". These days, NoMachine. It has a interactive and view-only mode as well. The fastest throughput I've yet seen in any of these remote screen sharing systems. Very easy to use, even across all major OSs. The free version only allows one connection at a time, but the enterprise version gives the possibility of several viewers / interacters on the same screen. Might be worth while to check out.

TNCaver

It isn't perfect, but Google Hangouts works as well as any.

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