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Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by visarga on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @02:57PM (#7065731)
I do pair programming with my brother and we used Skype for face video and VNC for remote screen. Skype has audio problems (noise cancelling is bad) and VNC requires an external routable IP to let anyone connect and that is not possible in all situations. I found other tools, such as TeamViewer but they slow down my desktop considerably.

What tools are best for remote screen + cam video on an IP behind DHCP?

Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @03:11PM (#7065819)
SOrry to be a broken record, but Sococo's product does all of this. IT uses P2P when it works; else it routes through a 'media node' when necessary, all automatically and on the fly. You can be walking around with your wireless laptop on VPN talking and video-chatting; stop at your desk and plug in, and all the streams switch almost-seamlessly.

Caveat: I work at Sococo (I architected the audio/networking system).

Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by lucaspiller on Thursday January 16, 2014 @02:38AM (#7068485)
I've used Skype and Google hangouts before and haven't had issues (although I've been just screen sharing, not screen + video). If you have audio problems, you should get a headset. Even cheap ones are better than most laptop microphone / speaker setups.
Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by jasonmccay on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @03:04PM (#7065767)
Have you ever tried Screen Hero? We use that from time to time here and it works nicely.
Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by nstott on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @04:00PM (#7066120)
screenhero is great too, no video, but it has voice
Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by mrkurt on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @03:03PM (#7065758)
Hangouts are pretty good at this. We use them in groups, at least.
Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by monksy on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @03:25PM (#7065893)
I think that team viewer works really well. But then again my company is MS centric so we use Lync and/or WebEx.
Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by neosergio on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @04:53PM (#7066449)
A great combination is Skype + join.me
Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by user24 on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @05:18PM (#7066579)
tried gotoMeeting?