Is there a good solution to getting an RDP connection on an iPad to a Windows machine

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I'd like to use an iPad and connect via RDP to a Windows machine. Is it possible? I saw some RDP apps, but none of them are by Apple or Microsoft or any company that I've heard of before.

Is it feasible? Usefull? Does it work well or should I just forget it and tell them to use their MacBook Pro with RDP or a Lenovo ThinkPad X-Series Tablet?

Thanks!!!
 
RDP, I don't believe so, probably due to protocalls (or lack of). You would need to use Spashtop which is essentially like Logmein or Teamviewer where you take/look over the desktop.
 
FrostBite said:
RDP, I don't believe so, probably due to protocalls (or lack of). You would need to use Spashtop which is essentially like Logmein or Teamviewer where you take/look over the desktop.
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Very wrong. RDP is a known protocol, for which there are a number of iOS clients. I'm partial to Jump Desktop, and I've tried iTap RDP to good effect when I've needed support for RD Gateway.
 
Oops, you are correct. I actually have downloaded one in my iTunes history too.
 
Check into mocha RDP light if you want something free and does the basics. Been using it for a long time on my home server. Does not support the newer RDP protocol in server 2008 and up though so that's something else to watch out for if you need it.
 
iTAP is awesome if you need to use an RD Gateway. There are some other good ones too. Just read the reviews as a lot do not support NLA (the newer forms of RDP used in 7, 8, and 2008/2012).
 
If I'm in-network I use Splashtop, if I'm remote-controling over the internet, I use logmein.com

Splashtop works great, I even did some very light gaming over it, but it consumes a TON of bandwidth (I suppose if you have cable or such with a high upload it'll work, but I'm on 3mbps/1mbps DSL) logmein.com works but is very much no-frills (except remote audio) so it works better over the internet (I even used it today over ~300kbps cellular though there was noticeable lag when switching windows) you can even set it to lower-quality and monochrome to reduce lag (didnt try it today, was accessing photos on my desktop so I would rather have more lag and higher-quality full-color images)
 
My wife uses Splashtop on the iPad while in the house to do stuff on her desktop. I use RemoteHD to pull up my computers on my iPhone outside of the house.

Unfortionanly I can't really RemoteHD that much because Sprint's network is abysmal and can't muster more then 100KB/s which isn't enough. I'm sure on LTE it would be more then useable.
 
MaxBurn said:
Some of you seem to have a pretty lose definition of what RDP is.
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Most of us see "RDP" as shorthand for "any means of remote-controlling the PC" not the literal MS-defined Protocol. Outside of a very few locked-down systems, I doubt it really matters.
 
Ashton said:
Most of us see "RDP" as shorthand for "any means of remote-controlling the PC" not the literal MS-defined Protocol. Outside of a very few locked-down systems, I doubt it really matters.
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And that's not good. If someone says "RDP", that is always the the protocol by that name. Someone uses lowercase-r-"remote", well, then it's catch as catch can.

Genericizing technical acronyms just leads to laypeople getting confused -- like the now unfixable confusion between "memory" and "storage".
 
RDP to me means Microsoft's RDP protocol.

I'm a huge fan of iTap RDP. It's an excellent iOS RDP app.

And in my experience, RDP is significantly faster than VNC, LogMeIn, TeaMViewer, and Splashtop, especially via remote networks and cellular internet.

The only exception is I sometimes use Splashtop when I am on the LAN.
 
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