Remoting tool comparison
17 March 2015
When I worked on a project, I need to do remote pairing with my colleagues at the beginning. We spiked several remoting tools，here is the comparison between them:
| Tool | video quality | remote control | stability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skype | ★★ | No | ★ |
| TeamViewer | ★ | Yes | ★★★ |
| join.me | ★★ | Yes | ★(has sound issue in some mac laptops) |
| zoom.us | ★★★ | Yes | ★★★ |
| Fuze | – | – | can not connect during testing |
| ScreenHero | ★★★ | Yes | not between China & AU |
| Google Hangouts | ★★★ | No | Yes |
| Gotomeeting | 30 days free drive, | we didn’t try it, | as at the beginning we only want to remote paring |
The data only reflect the results during our testing among AU and China, maybe varies in different regions.
Finally we chose zoom.us, and it worked pretty good.
Later in another project(people in 5 countries), we use Fuze to do standup everyday, but Fuze has a connection issue in China too, I suggested the team switch to zoom.us, and it proves that our decision is correct. We also used it for pairing programming in that project.
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