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Best desktop remote app?

Etherton

Etherton

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I picked up a iPad Air 2 and was wondering what is the best app for remote desktop control? Controlling my Windows 8 desktop. Thanks everyone!
 
I would assume Teamviewer works pretty well.
 
There's a Microsoft RDP app. Should work pretty well for Win 8.
 
Another vote for TeamViewer; free for private use

I wish Apple would make a native iPad app for Apple Remote Desktop
 
Teamviewer works pretty good. I use it often on my iPhone and don't have any real complaints besides the pop-up windows.

I prefer splashtop remote though. It's quite possibly the best remote desktop program I've used. The IQ is fantastic and it's fast too. It also supports sound. IIRC, if you use it outside of your LAN, it costs money, but it's well worth the sub price IMO. I use it to admin several machines for friends/family
 
Splashtop has the best image quality for things that are in motion, like watching videos and playing games. Microsoft's official RDP client is great for desktop or sysadmin work.
 
Over the Internet or local?

Internet = TeamViewer
Local = Microsoft Remote Desktop

Protocol wise, Microsoft RDP is the best I have seen of anything. Best responsiveness and rendering quality.
 
I really like PocketCloud, but it would appear that Dell is crap-canning it completely, so that's out.
 
Nothing beats Microsoft's RDP. That being said, TeamViewer's pretty useful. VNC just consumes WAY too much bandwidth.
 
JumpDesktop is by far the best app i've used for remote desktop on my ipad/iphone. well worth the money.
 
cortexodus said:
I really like PocketCloud, but it would appear that Dell is crap-canning it completely, so that's out.
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Well that just ruined my day. I've been using the pro version of PocketCloud for years and really liked it.
 
I've had issues with RDP lately from my MacBook to my server which didn't exist prior to Yosemite.
 
I've been using teamviewer for a long time. It just works! I'm going to give chrome remote desktop a shot though.
 
I prefer iSSH.

Then again, usually when I have to remote into a machine it is a Linux box running headless somewhere.
 
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