Unyte desktop sharing better, but still not good
Posted on March 14th, 2007 by phobulous
As a client, the picture quality of the shared desktop was good and rendered fairly quckily. As the host, Unyte slowed my computer to a crawl. Unyte was better than CrossLoop in that it could give someone control of your desktop and take it back, but there lacked a quick override to get control back (e.g. the person can be a jerk and move your mouse away from unchecking the “start sharing” box).
Unyte has suffered the same fate as CrossLoop…uninstallation.
Filed under: Web Collaboration
Hi There,
I’m interested to know a little more about the trouble you experienced when using Unyte. I have had over a quarter million new users start using the service in the last 3 months alone, and this is the first I’ve heard of this particular issue. I’d love to get to the bottom of it, so we can make any necessary improvements on our end and provide a better service to our users. The Unyte download file should be less than a meg, and when running a Unyte session the program should use only around 25 megs of memory.
As for the issue with your participants who want to be jerks and not let you click the box to take control back, you might consider being more selective about the audience you grant access to controlling your computer. Never-the-less, a keyboard short cut for enabling and disabling this functionality sounds like it could be an easy fix. I’ll talk to our development team about what it would take to implement something like this in an upcoming release.
Best Regards,
PDP
Thanks for the reply. At the time I was running Unyte, I had antivirus running in the background (as always) and 2 IE windows. My mouse movement was very slow and choppy, but immediately after closing down Unyte, I was fine again.
I like the idea of of the keyboard shortcut, that’s exactly what I think is needed. Being selective about the audience, while good in theory, is not always feasible.