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    Remote Access 4 Noobs

    I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good app or method for remte access. I want to be able to use my pc athome to edit video from otherlocations (ie. on the fly at work).

    Been using hamachi for a couple of apps lately..don't know if it would be any use.

    Cheers guys!

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    Re: Remote Access 4 Noobs

    logmein free would suffice, but the lag from doing video editing would be horrendous and I think unworkable.

    YMMV

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    Re: Remote Access 4 Noobs

    Is there going to be a lag problem with any method?

    I suppose that makes sense, even running football manager can be laggy for my mate on the other end.

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    Re: Remote Access 4 Noobs

    www.teamviewer.com does the lot and very simply. Free for home use too.
    But yes, bandwidth is your problem and for anything like video forget it!
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    Re: Remote Access 4 Noobs

    What is wrong with RDP, apart from that it can be quite laggy on anything other than LAN.

    There is very little ways to deal with the lag issue as video frames are quite large. While desktop / basic webpage usage can be compressed down significantly through the remote access connection, anything more graphical intense (especially Flash) will lag like hell.

    One thing you could try is to reduce the resolution of the remote desktop, or/and the bit depth. Or use VNC or any other client that use lossy compression and take the "quality" way down.

    Say if your workplace have ADSL2+, you edit at 1280x720 desktop resolution, 16bit colour and with say a 1.5Mbps upload, you will only be able to fetch a frame every 1~10 seconds (depending on compression rate). Obviously if your office have super fast (upload) connection then the speed will be much better.

    I do that at home (bedroom to lounge) and that can take easily up to 100Mbps.
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    Re: Remote Access 4 Noobs

    Video editing, even via RDP on a gigabit network, would be horrible.

    A solution to sync files would be better, for editing locally wherever yoou are, but the files would still be huge.

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    Re: Remote Access 4 Noobs

    If you are looking for a hassle free remote access and control, I would recommend trying the remote support appliances from RHUB. You can easily get started with your remote support using itand will have guaranteed connection, mutual support and knowledge sharing, as well as in-session online training in case you face any difficulties.

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    Re: Remote Access 4 Noobs

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    www.teamviewer.com does the lot and very simply. Free for home use too.

    for the absolute win

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    Re: Remote Access 4 Noobs

    Quote Originally Posted by annise View Post
    If you are looking for a hassle free remote access and control, I would recommend trying the remote support appliances from RHUB. You can easily get started with your remote support using itand will have guaranteed connection, mutual support and knowledge sharing, as well as in-session online training in case you face any difficulties.
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    Re: Remote Access 4 Noobs

    Here is related slashdot page. Should give you a fair few alternatives with pros and cons of each.

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    Re: Remote Access 4 Noobs

    Quote Originally Posted by dangel View Post
    www.teamviewer.com does the lot and very simply. Free for home use too.
    But yes, bandwidth is your problem and for anything like video forget it!
    +1 for teamviewer!

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    Re: Remote Access 4 Noobs

    Windows live mesh, https://www.mesh.com/welcome/default.aspx is cloud file storage and allows remote access to computers.

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