When you are sitting at one part of the world, and when your firend is sitting at another, and when a situation arises where you need to work together or browse something together, or maybe you need to install a custom made software yourself on your friend’s pc rather than giving him instructions over chat and to hear that he is doing it all wrong.
You could use a remote desktop. But a remote desktop requires a static IP, and if too many pcs are connected to that static IP, getting connected to a particular PC that you want to connect to is not an easy task. And not many operating systems support remote desktop sharing, where the user of the pc and the remote user can share the same desktop and one can watch what the other is doing or do things together.
If you have left something for download at your home PC, and if you are at office, or are travelling, and if you need to check the status of the download, you need the feature that would provide remote access to your desktop at home, and if you have attached your webcam to it, you could possibly find out where you have left your diet pills before you left. Remote desktop is a good idea, but you again will need a static IP. This can get too complex at times.
The best alternative to the Remote Desktop Terminal Client, you could try remotepc.com. You can work at your office PC or your home PC with an internet connection from any location in the world. You could also do remote meetings with upto 10 users sharing the same desktop
You need to register at remotepc.com, and download 2 applications. One is the Remote Access Host and Remote Access Viewer. The Remote Access Host may be installed on your office or home PC which would be acting as your remote pc, and the Remote Access Viewer on the PC that you would be using to access the remote pc, your laptop maybe.
You will need both Windows, and a stable Internet connection for this to work properly. You may create any number of Remote Access Hosts at your home or office, and when you start the Remote Access Viewer, you will be able to select any of the pcs that are online and view them. When you go full screen, your entire desktop becomes the desktop of the Host PC, and this is pure desktop sharing, and you will be able to monitor the activities on the remote PC, and intervene if necessary and work on something, perhaps install a software, or open notepad and type a howler.
The starter pack costs you from $4.95 a month, and thats a very small price to pay for the volume of features that you get. Take the trial, and I’m sure you will like it.
