Reaching into your desktop PC remotely: Part 2

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	BEST PRACTICES Reaching into your desktop PC remotely: Part 2
	By Patrick Marshall In the first installment of this two-part series on remote-access, I covered the (no longer) free version of LogMeIn. In this article, I discuss two additional services — TeamViewer and Google Chrome Remote Desktop — that let you operate a host PC remotely with another PC, a tablet, or your smart phone.

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Thanks for this useful article – LogMeIn free has been perfect for me to get to my home pc from work occasionally. Chrome Remote Desktop says it can’t access my home pc – I assume it’s a firewall issue but can’t be certain. TeamViewer works and looks very similar to LogMeIn but for some reason it cripples my home broadband whereas LMI had no noticeable effect. Whether TV uses a much higher data transfer rate than LMI I don’t know but it means that although I can connect to the home pc I can’t do anything useful with it once there.
Can anyone suggest a way to reduce TeamViewer’s impact or an alternative program (that will get through the office firewall) that I could use instead?
Thanks.

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FWIW, i’ve been testing TeamViewer on some of the computers i now connect to with LogMeIn, and i haven’t seen all that much difference in performance. i have run across some minor quirks with TV that i haven’t bothered to chase down, but overall i’m pretty pleased so far. have you looked at task manager on your home PC while you are connected to see if maybe something is thrashing the system?

another alternative i’m looking at is UltraVNC — it was my main remote control app back in the dark ages before LogMeIn came along, and i suspect it’s what i’ll end up with after LogMeIn Free is gone. you do have to be a bit tech saavy to set it up (you’ll have to configure port forwarding on your router), but once it’s installed it really beats LogMeIn Free in many respects. only real downside is that it’s not for the casual user. i’m a bit surprised Patrick didn’t mention it in his article.

lee

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If you are running a Pro or Ultimate version of Windows you can use remote desktop.

Joe

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Free program for commercial and personal use is available at http://www.AeroAdmin.com
Downloads a file called AeroAdmin.exe
Run it, and it produces a number.
“Other” person, at their computer, also runs aeroadmin.exe and types in the number you got on your computer, and “they” get remote control of your computer.
Drop dead simple. You can leave aeroadmin.exe running in the background on target computer and remote in anytime from any other computer, much like logmein.
I use it all the time for performing services on my various customers’ computers.

HannibalTwo

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AeroAdmin sounds a lot like Teamviewer (which is what I use), so I was curious enough to go take a look. It’s from a website in Russia. That should raise some alarm bells.

But what disturbs me even more was the first thought to cross my mind was, “Well, at least it won’t have a NSA backdoor.” {sigh}

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