Having spent a quite enjoyable weekend with Allen in Pragus (Shades of a Czech Profox reunion with just the two of us) I have come back into work after a 2 month outage caused by a major DVT Pulmonary embolism resulting in 4 days in the critical care unit and 3 weeks in hospital - all caused by a seemingly innocuous calf strain. Still, I'm here to talk about it which in itself is a miracle.... I won the Lottery the day the Consultant got to work on clearing it up ... in fact there was a 20 minute window during which he saved my life literally.
Anyway, I digress from the subject. During this time off I have been trying to find a suitable Remote Desktop for use in controlling my work PC from home as I am only working part time (some would say that I always have!!!) now that Logmein and most of the other solutions are quite expensive or require VPN's to be set up. I had used Teamviewer but wanted to abide by the "fair use policy" and didn't want to abuse it but the price is quite high for a usable solution. During my search I came accross Splashtop "Business" which I purchased earlier in the week for a sensible price of about $80. This allows unlimited access to any number remote machines and I can actually access my PC at work now via my Mac, iPad or even my iPhone which actually works despite having 2 x 23" screens on the Work PC. OK, it isn't ideal but it does work in an emergency. You can easily distribute a runtime to customers at any time so remote support of ad-hoc customers is easily attainable and all within the fixed price. The system is much, much faster than Teamviewer and Logmein with no noticable lag on responses. In fact the response time is more akin to remote controlling a PC on a LAN using VNC and it is a truly usable proposition to work remotely. In addition, no VPN's are required as the system routes through Splashtop's own VPN/server so tunnelling through customer's firewalls and routers is unnecessary. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone looking for a remote support solution. Oh, and the food in Prague was even better than it was last time I was there at the Czech VFP devcon. What a shame more people couldn't have made it (AndyHC ... maybe next time eh?) and this time we got a chance to actually see the city sights, which are amazing! Thanks for the company Al, we must do it again next time! Dave _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
