Remote Access/Remote Desktop solution

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I will be away from home for a fair bit of time, so will not have access to my workstation, which I need.
I would like to remote in to the workstation to utilise it's power. As there are no mobile alternatives.

The Workstation is at home with virgin 40up/600 down. Remote location will have fibre 1g up/down.

I'm all confused as to what solution would be most appropriate, as there are no so many various options, and conflicting suggestions from my research.

Option a) get 2x routers 1 for each end that can do some ipsec or similar ? and use remote desktop
Option b) get 1x router for the workstation end that can offer openvn ? and use remote dekstop
Option c) Teamviewer - I have used it before remote admin, however I think the performance is not suitable for graphics work.
Option d) Parsec - some kind of video steaming/remote vpn.
Option e) Zerotier - some kind of hybrid vpn
Option f) something I have not thought of.

As always finance is limited. I want something secure (or at least no less secure than a standard setup), and functionally ok. I will be limited by virgins 40Mbps upstream. I wont need game speed latency, however a very laggy mouse, and bad visual artifacts would be problematic.

I'm not good with nor have time for linux, so specialist cli solutions are not for me.

Thoughts are appreciated.
 
OpenVPN Cloud is free for up to three connections, so you could just connect your workstation and your laptop at the remote location to that, and use RDP. RDP would let you enable things like RemoteFx which is going to give you the best experience and use the GPU in your home PC.
 
Moonlight Gamestream is another to look at if you have a nVidia card.

Can be easily setup to just stream your desktop, so not solely a gaming solution.

Simple to setup, free as well.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, it uses your public IP to connect, so unless you have a static IP from your ISP I would also have something like Chrome Remote Desktop available so you can always access your home network to find your public IP.

It may not change much, even if it isn’t static, but best to have backup access.
 
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Thanks Billy

I have NVida gpu's in my workstation (pascal), however my current laptop has only a simple intel igpu.
I assume moonlight is a alternative to Remotedesktop ? And still to be used within whatever VPN solution is used such the openvpn cloud.
 
No VPN is needed with Moonlight.

Install the internet hosting tool on your main PC, open some ports on your router if needed, install the client software on your laptop, phone, tablet etc.

The client device doesn’t need to be anything special, your main PC will be doing all the grunt work.

You have a solid connection at both ends so it should work well.

I would also make sure to use a wired connection at both ends if possible, but that goes for any solution you use tbh.

https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/Setup-Guide
 
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