LogMeIn just said F*ck you to it's free users!

[quick_scar]

I am finding chrome remote desktop does not refresh as nicely. Lot more lag. Also finding it a bit of a pain because of the multiple monitors at home. No option to shrink it to one without changing display settings, then changing them back when I get home. Granted it does support 2 monitors, but with the lag, one is better but not quite as good as I remember logmein to be.

I am avoiding logging into logmein until I have to to stretch out when that 7 day timer starts.

Going to play with team viewer and crossloop today to see how they are.

[UndrgroundRider]

TeamViewer is really good and idiot proof on the remote end. But if you use it too much you will get flagged for commercial use. A license is quite expensive.

[revelations]

Originally posted by UndrgroundRider
TeamViewer is really good and idiot proof on the remote end. But if you use it too much you will get flagged for commercial use. A license is quite expensive.

Not if you change your client MAC address

If TW reduced their prices down to something reasonable (eg 200$ vs 600$) I would buy it in a second. I use it 2-3x a day at least. Too lazy to bother with RDP for all my headless home machines.

[UndrgroundRider]

Originally posted by revelations


Not if you change your client MAC address

If TW reduced their prices down to something reasonable (eg 200$ vs 600$) I would buy it in a second. I use it 2-3x a day at least. Too lazy to bother with RDP for all my headless home machines.

Their prices are out of this world insane.

[speedog]

One big negative on Chrome Remote Desktop - a Google account has to be logged in on the remote machine. Will test out TightVNC today and tomorrow - sounds promising as a replacement.

[UndrgroundRider]

If you're going the vnc route then ultravnc is by far the best. As far as I know it's the only one that doesn't have a huge list of issues on win vista/7. It also has some nice features like file transfer built-in.

I've found vnc to be really problematic though. It's much slower than rdp and wouldn't work for me on 1 out of 4 systems. I didn't bother to investigate why, so possibly it was something simple.

One thing that is nice is the ability to start an outgoing connection from the remote end. Ultravnc has a single click packaging tool online but its pretty easy to achieve the same thing with your own scripts.

[speedog]

TightVNC up and running, it was a fairly easy process aside from configuring some port forwarding on my router at the remote end - on first use it seems quite responsive. Running XP Pro on remote end, Win7 on local end.

[jacky4566]

What I find really odd is that OSX has an RDP client program built in.
Did M$ force them some how? or do they realize thier clients need to connect to real computers.

[Darell_n]

Originally posted by jacky4566
What I find really odd is that OSX has an RDP client program built in.
Did M$ force them some how? or do they realize thier clients need to connect to real computers.

No, it's easier to fix a PC from a Mac since there's only one sh*t box to worry about.

[speedog]

So TightVNC - wow, really fast or at least when compared to LogMeIn. Only issue I see is security because of port forwarding on the router but very strong password/phrases should help.

[thetransporter]

Originally posted by quick_scar
Going paid subscription only.

What other free alternatives are out there??

windows remote desktop, built in, free, since 2000

[The_Penguin]

Originally posted by adam c


No I work in IT so I don't use MAC crap..

:lol:

[eur0]

+1 teamviewer