[SOLVED] Can I Use My PC Remotely At School

[ExplosiveGeek]

I have a really good pc at home but not a good laptop so I was wondering if I could turn my pc on remotely at school and use it. I have heard this can be unsafe and I would like to do this safely. I also would not like to spend any money.

 

[USAFRet]

Use it for what, specifically?

'Turn it on remotely'?
Not really.

 

[punkncat]

It is within possibility by various means to access your PC at home if it is already on. "Use" could be the key aspect....

 

[ExplosiveGeek]

For work, like writing documents and general browser stuff. My laptop is incredibly slow.

 

[bill001g]

It might be even slower there is a lot of overhead in running it remotely. If you were say doing something very cpu intensive or maybe something that uses the video card to do encoding on the remote pc. In effect you are using the remote connection to click start and then everything runs on the home pc.
Compile a large program or run a video transcode would work. Surfing the web is going to be much slower.

If you want a lot of interaction it will likely be much slower that running things directly.

You can look at using teamviewer to get the remote access but I strongly suspect it is not going to do what you think it is.

 

[ExplosiveGeek]

It might be even slower there is a lot of overhead in running it remotely. If you were say doing something very cpu intensive or maybe something that uses the video card to do encoding on the remote pc. In effect you are using the remote connection to click start and then everything runs on the home pc.
Compile a large program or run a video transcode would work. Surfing the web is going to be much slower.

If you want a lot of interaction it will likely be much slower that running things directly.

You can look at using teamviewer to get the remote access but I strongly suspect it is not going to do what you think it is.

Ok thanks, I think I'll hold off doing it for now then.

 

[gggplaya]

Try out Parsec, it's free and works pretty well. People use it for games and 3D CAD work remotely: https://parsec.app/ The input latency is a little high when doing this remotely, so I wouldn't play any fast and intense FPS games. Slower adventure and campaign games will be fine.

They also have a remote wifi switch you can integrate with Amazon Alexa or Google Home to power up the computer while at school, while not free it's <$20: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084WWC9NS

 

[Nighthawk117]

I have a really good pc at home but not a good laptop so I was wondering if I could turn my pc on remotely at school and use it. I have heard this can be unsafe and I would like to do this safely. I also would not like to spend any money.

If you want to access your PC remotely I recommend Team Viewer, for non commercial use it's free. I've been using it for years for this purpose.

Note however unless you have wake on LAN setup then your PC must be already switched on to be accessible.

 

[punkncat]

^ Be aware...you haven't said it, and I am not inferring you are going to do it, but Team Viewer will shut you down in a New York minute if they sense you are moving copyrighted material across their platform. IE, if you link back to your own music or movie collection and transfer it over they can/will shut you down.

 

[Nighthawk117]

Good luck transferring that amount of data on Team Viewer

 

[USAFRet]

Hi, I don't want to create a new topic. I want to ask about your experience with TeamViewer. I understand it will be slow, but if I don't transfer files and use simple programs or even a video editor, can this help me?

No, you NEED to create a new thread for this.