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sand_man

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So I been using Teamviewer for the last 10 years or so and nothing!!!!..... and I mean nothing comes close!!!

However, I been using the free version and for the most part, despite using it more than what would be classified as casually, it's been warning free. Okay, if I'm being honest I absolutely flog it maintaining a remote session with my business on average 5 hours a day 7 days a week. I have about 30 user profiles added to my account for remote support to family and friends and to connect to the 5 machines on my local network. I've had 1 or 2 issues but nothing a change of mac address couldn't fix.

Anyways against my better judgement I went with the latest and greatest version 14 and it's fantastic except now it's a lot smarter and TV are a lot stricter and I'm getting warnings and automatically logged out of sessions and then refused new connections with an imposed timeout!! fair emuff...

So yeah, I've often contemplated getting the paid version but it starts at like 20 euro!! WTF man? It's certainly the best but by far the most expensive too!!

Anyway I been scouring the net for a viable alternative. They all pale into insignificance compared to TV, barring 1.....

The company was founded by former TV employees and from my testing over the last couple of days I would say it is every bit as good if not better. What's more, a decently specced package costs around $250 per annum. So, $21 a month roughly. There is a free version, but like TV, I suspect with fairly regular usage they will start imposing limitations. Their starting price is $11 a month.

https://anydesk.com/en/features
 
R4ziel said:
I use Anydesk on a daily basis for random things, I've come to like it more than teamviewer, there are no restrictions on time for Anydesk free
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Interesting!! I'm going to use this as my default remote client for as long as it will allow me. It will be interesting to see at what stage I'll be triggering red flags re usage. But from what I've experienced so far, I would be quite happy to pay R3.5k per annum for this software... Having super efficient remote software affords me the luxury of running my business remotely.
 
Was going to suggest looking at Anydesk as well. I dont use it personally but I have seen someone else use it and they swear by it.
 
sand_man said:
Interesting!! I'm going to use this as my default remote client for as long as it will allow me. It will be interesting to see at what stage I'll be triggering red flags re usage. But from what I've experienced so far, I would be quite happy to pay R3.5k per annum for this software... Having super efficient remote software affords me the luxury of running my business remotely.
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I have Anydesk on my gaming Pc at home and my Media Center PC, sometimes I forget Im connected to them when I get busy with work, and come back an hour or more later and they are still connected. I have worked on my gaming PC doing testing for 2-3 days straight and it didn't disconnect once, so if you have any other needs for Anydesk, it might be worth looking at buying a license

I have also used it on servers in Datacenters as a backup if RD fails, and never had any issues with it, I would recommend Anydesk to anyone over Teamviewer
 
R4ziel said:
I have Anydesk on my gaming Pc at home and my Media Center PC, sometimes I forget Im connected to them when I get busy with work, and come back an hour or more later and they are still connected. I have worked on my gaming PC doing testing for 2-3 days straight and it didn't disconnect once, so if you have any other needs for Anydesk, it might be worth looking at buying a license

I have also used it on servers in Datacenters as a backup if RD fails, and never had any issues with it, I would recommend Anydesk to anyone over Teamviewer
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That's just crazy, no remote control software should ever be on servers, ever. That's just asking for trouble haha
 
irBosOtter said:
That's just crazy, no remote control software should ever be on servers, ever. That's just asking for trouble haha
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This was in an isolated test environment, never ever on production servers connected to a production network
Its just to make sure if they restart i have a way to connect to them should Microsoft decide the update I did disables remote desktop
 
R4ziel said:
This was in an isolated test environment, never ever on production servers connected to a production network
Its just to make sure if they restart i have a way to connect to them should Microsoft decide the update I did disables remote desktop
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Ah ok ja, suppose that's not that big of a security risk, we took over a company that had teamviewer on their production servers, their account was hacked, most data was deleted by whomever connected to them, they had minimal backups, took them half a year to catch up again
 
irBosOtter said:
Ah ok ja, suppose that's not that big of a security risk, we took over a company that had teamviewer on their production servers, their account was hacked, most data was deleted by whomever connected to them, they had minimal backups, took them half a year to catch up again
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Yeah I hate when I consult for a company and their Exchange and Finance servers have Teamviewer installed, with the firewall disabled to make sure it stays connected. I see that waaay to regularly. In a test environment where I don't deal with any live data, and there is no route to the production server network, I use remote programs to make my life easier, I have spent too much time in DataCenters, especially IS Parklands DC in Rosebank
 
I decided to just use Microsoft RDP instead.
Their RDP app on mobile works great and even better on PC.

Created a free dyn dns host on noio.com, installed the update client, forwarded the port on my router and now just RDP using my hostname.
 
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