Teamviewer or alternatives?

Soldato
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Hi all,

Im looking for some advice on remote desktops please.

Since teamviewer has updated and now continuously disconnects after a very short period with a long cooldown before reconnecting, it seems I shall either have to look at buying a license or finding a decent alternative.

I have 2 large woodchip gasifier chp engines I run at home on the farm, and each has its own w7 pc connected to it, that allow me to mirror the built in software and run them from the computer, and thus remotely in the house or even on mobile via remote desktop.

What I need is software that has the ability to have 2 minimum, usually 3 computers logged in simultaneously and be able to access from android mobile.

Teamviewer has worked great for the last couple of years but as said now it is too limited without going the license route. It looks pretty dam expensive to me. Is it worth going this route or is there free software up to the job?
https://www.teamviewer.com/en/buy-now/
I am not sure which license I would need, the £60 or the £120 one. Is concurrent users the same as multiple sessions? So I would need the expensive corporate one or not?

I have set up chrome desktop and been trying to use that when I can, but to be honest Im not impressed and it seems limited. Occasionally it wont open a session at all, and most of the time it opens but I cannot control anything
Teamviewer occasionally had this problem, but by using the block remote inputs option it would always work. That is one of the free features thats now been removed. Though for some reason it still works on my phone.

So is there any other software to try or options recommended? I have tried looking at setting it up properly with windows but never seem to get it working properly.

I do have a WLAN connection to the gasifiers themselves and they also have internet access.


Cheers in advance.
 
Have you tried VNC?

https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/vnc/

Obviously you need to be aware that any kind of remote control that goes over the internet exposes you to potential security risks.

If you have a local network connection, wired or wireless I would use that with VNC and you are then not exposing anything as you do not need to go via the Internet at all.

TeamViewer by the way is one of the worst possible security threats to a network, because to use it, how it actually works, is to give access to a third party company to your PC and should only be used in the absolutely worst possible case.
 
I will check them both out thanks.

Used VNC yeaaaars ago.

I do need it to work over internet also as quite often im having to login via my phone.
 
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