Sneak peek into my new roundup: ALL remote control solutions (VNC,TSC,LogMeIn,z2 etc)

[Menneisyys]

It will take some 2-3 days at least to completely finish my forthcoming article, which discusses and COMPARES all full (that is, I don’t discuss plain media controllers OR mail / PIM synchronizer client – these will be discussed in a later roundup) remote control Pocket PC – to – PC solutions. In the meantime, if a “plain” comparison / benchmark / feature chart isn’t a problem, feel free to check out THIS CHART (http://www.winmobiletech.com/PPC2PCRemoteRoundupTable.htm). It’s already FULL of never-before-published information on, for example, the bandwidth usage, the compatibility, the advantages and disadvantages etc. of each and every desktop PC-from-Pocket PC remote control solution.

(I post this announcement right now because I receive 2-3 related questions a day (the last one for example here (http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?p=1246176)), which certainly shows there’s very high demand for any kind of information on this subject, even (still) without a fully-fledged article.

If you find the chart insufficient or not clear enough, stay tuned: the FULL roundup will definitely be published next week :)

Also, any kind of feedback (including flames) is welcome. Note that you don't need to elaborate / comment on chart cells marked “will be filled in later” – they will be filled in.

[vijay555]

Wow, that's some comprehensive work! Excellent...

V

[craigiecraigie4]

Hi Minniesys,
You know I track your blogs religiously. Not sure I get your conclusions here tho. In my VERY HUMBLE opinion logmein is slow and cumbersome (connection can take 5 mins!), whilst the built in TSC (notably absent) is stunningly fast - particuarly with VJ's full-screen (which, for some strange reason, I'm battling to get working on my latest JJ altho I used it successfully a year ago). I'm guessing that TSC has firewall issues for some users?

[Menneisyys]

Hi Minniesys,
You know I track your blogs religiously. Not sure I get your conclusions here tho.

No problem - at this early stage of the article (it's just the comparison chat that I've published), this is natural. Here, we're comparing apples and oranges - LogMeIn and TSC are meant for completely different things, in radcally different networking environments. That is, both are excellent technologies. I'll elaborate on all these stuff in the article.

In my VERY HUMBLE opinion logmein is slow and cumbersome (connection can take 5 mins!)

Strange you have problems like that - in my tests, connecting didn't take more time than with the alternate Web-based technologies. Neither has anyone complained about slow connection speeds. Are you trying to use LogMeIn trhough a HTTP gateway?

[Menneisyys]

Updated version posted.

Dunno when I publish the final article - at least 2-3 days more. (Still working on correctly filling in the chart). In the meatime, comments are surely welcome :)