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Also, I wonder how this affects bandwidth. Are you just constantly streaming HD? Are there latency issues? What about if the network gets congested? It sounds p

Also, I wonder how this affects bandwidth. Are you just constantly streaming HD? Are there latency issues? What about if the network gets congested? It sounds pretty terrible. Also on the bottom of that FAQ it says "Please post your issues to [Insert Forum Link]" heh.

DannyBee 12y ago
"Also, I wonder how this affects bandwidth. Are you just constantly streaming HD? Are there latency issues? What about if the network gets congested? It sounds pretty terrible." I can imagine, given experience with VNC or even some crappy RDP implementations, it sounds like it would be terrible. But those are pretty old and bad technologies for remote desktop usage, with known issues. You can do better. I'm sure there are situations where the experience is not ideal. But remember that you are talking about people using chromebooks here. They are computers basically built with the expectation that you have good internet, and they are targeting the education market here. I would point out that neither Adobe, nor Google, would want people in the education market (one of Adobe's prime targets) to have a crappy experience with Photoshop, as it would be really bad for both parties (if Google makes a bad first impression with chromebooks, people write them off and never try them again. If Adobe makes a bad impression with photoshop, people won't pay hundreds later on to buy it). So one would imagine they would not release a terrible experience :)
- _delirium 12y ago
  the expectation that you have good internet, and they are targeting the education market Sadly I don't think I've ever been in an educational institution where the wifi was particularly reliable. Wired ethernet yes, so a computer-lab setup can work well with remote-desktop type stuff. But that's getting increasingly old-fashioned, and everyone connects on wifi now, which seems to often not be up to the task. We have some huge pipe at the university I work at, and my wired office connection is great, but the wifi? Frequent dropouts and latency spikes, especially if a bunch of people in one room are doing network-intensive stuff. I can believe our IT infrastructure isn't among the best, but it's not the only place I've had that trouble either.

DannyBee 12y ago

"Also, I wonder how this affects bandwidth. Are you just constantly streaming HD? Are there latency issues? What about if the network gets congested? It sounds pretty terrible." I can imagine, given experience with VNC or even some crappy RDP implementations, it sounds like it would be terrible. But those are pretty old and bad technologies for remote desktop usage, with known issues. You can do better. I'm sure there are situations where the experience is not ideal. But remember that you are talking about people using chromebooks here. They are computers basically built with the expectation that you have good internet, and they are targeting the education market here. I would point out that neither Adobe, nor Google, would want people in the education market (one of Adobe's prime targets) to have a crappy experience with Photoshop, as it would be really bad for both parties (if Google makes a bad first impression with chromebooks, people write them off and never try them again. If Adobe makes a bad impression with photoshop, people won't pay hundreds later on to buy it). So one would imagine they would not release a terrible experience :)

_delirium 12y ago
the expectation that you have good internet, and they are targeting the education market Sadly I don't think I've ever been in an educational institution where the wifi was particularly reliable. Wired ethernet yes, so a computer-lab setup can work well with remote-desktop type stuff. But that's getting increasingly old-fashioned, and everyone connects on wifi now, which seems to often not be up to the task. We have some huge pipe at the university I work at, and my wired office connection is great, but the wifi? Frequent dropouts and latency spikes, especially if a bunch of people in one room are doing network-intensive stuff. I can believe our IT infrastructure isn't among the best, but it's not the only place I've had that trouble either.