Setting up remote desktop connection

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blue-eye-boy

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Hey all, hope I will find help here again.

I have to set up remote desktop connection between my home pc, and work pc. This will be to Pastel work on work pc fom home, and general admin tasks. Teamviewer is too slow and really not a pleasure to work with. Someone told me to set this up, but I have no idea where to even start.

I will be glad even if someone can guide me to where I can read up on this, how to do it from start to finish, or if someone will explain to me step by step? I never had anything to do with this before, so pls guide me to a noob solution....

Thanks a million.
 
Need access to the work router,and the internet connection needs to allow incoming connections.

So yes overall more info is needed to be able to guide you
 
I forgot, what version of Windows is your work pc running? Win 7 starter & Home Basic dont have RDP AFAIK.
 
Teamviewer = 0 effort.

blue-eye-boy said:
Teamviewer is too slow and really not a pleasure to work with. Someone told me to set this up, but I have no idea where to even start.
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What do you mean it's slow and "not a pleasure to work with"? Another remote access solution isn't going to be any faster. Perhaps your office connection is asymmetrical?
 
Stick with teamviewer - it is optimized for use over the internet. Opening up RDP to the internet is asking for trouble...

Rather set up QoS rules to give your teamviewer traffic a higher priority.
 
We've tried teamviewer a lot, but the lag is just too much. So someone told me that remote desktop is better. As I said, I'm not used to this, but I remembered he told me of some web address he had to create for me, for which I will have to pay a yearly fee. I just wish I remembered his exact explanasion.
 
Yes - you will need a domain name that translates to the IP address of your work router, as the address is dynamic and will change every time your router reboots. noip.com provides this service for free.

But switching to RDP won't solve the problem that you are having with lag. The root cause of the lag is the lack of bandwidth either at your office or home connection, or both.

The only way you can improve the lag is to dedicate a chunk of the available bandwidth to teamviewer traffic.
 
wudisc said:
Yes - you will need a domain name that translates to the IP address of your work router, as the address is dynamic and will change every time your router reboots. noip.com provides this service for free.

But switching to RDP won't solve the problem that you are having with lag. The root cause of the lag is the lack of bandwidth either at your office or home connection, or both.

The only way you can improve the lag is to dedicate a chunk of the available bandwidth to teamviewer traffic.
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Okay that makes sense. Can you explain how I go about doing that? Then I can try again.
 
blue-eye-boy said:
Both Win 7 home Premium
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Bad news. Will not work with Home Premium for the machine you are remoting into, ie the target machine.

Win 7 Home Prem has an RDP client, so you can use it to connect to another system that supports incoming RDP. But it does not have the RDP "server" side, so it cannot be connected to by another RDP client. You need Pro.

More here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/remote-desktop-connection-faq#1TC=windows-7

All editions of Windows 7 include Remote Desktop Connection.

•You can use Remote Desktop to initiate a connection from any edition of Windows 7.


•You can connect to computers running Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, or Windows 7 Enterprise.


•You can't use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to computers running Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, or Windows 7 Home Premium.
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blue-eye-boy said:
Shucks I do not know that, where do i check? Sorry for the noob questions...
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Honestly, save yourself (and us) the pain. It's not trivial.

Just use Teamviewer, it's excellent and requires zero configuration. If it's slow it's your connection, not Teamviewer.
 
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