I just went to log in to LogMeIn and was confronted with this message: First I'd heard of it to be frank, although I can't say I'm surprised. Not that I use the service very often, but I occasionally use it to touch base with my home computer from work.
They did the same to hamachi aswell. It won't run as a service and needs to have an account active. Still good products so didn't mind paying
I'm going to give Chrome RDP a whirl. Looking forward to the Android app, and it will never cost a penny.
That's ALWAYS the case. That's they way to go for silicon valley startups. Penetrate the market with a very useful software for free. Spike your growth and userbase, creates a torrent of positive feedback on review sites, forums. Tech blogs and sites start reviewing the product. Then after you hit critical mass. Boom, take away free software and force upgrades to paid plan.
In a way, I'm surprised it didn't come sooner, LogMeIn has been around for ages really, but I'm also a bit gutted as it's a really good product.
Then £30 a year is hardly a fortune is it? I'm using Bullguard AV and I love it. I paid £5 for it with a year sub so no doubt I'll pay for it once the year is up (will probably dig around for another £5 jobby) but sometimes I feel that apps are worth paying out for.
Where did I say it was expensive? I said I was a bit gutted - purely because it's a great product for casual use. Jeez!
I use for causal use but won't be paying, was useful to maintain family computers I'd rather setup a free dynamic IP service and RDP or similar
I found out about this yesterday as the trainer on a course I am on said that he just got an email saying it. Otherwise I still wouldn't know about it as I am in a training room all this week. Personally I don't use it, got teamviewer license for supporting friends and family, use NTRcloud for work support sessions, and I vpn home to get on any of my home machines
Just a word on RDP and similar protocols - I have done some testing and found that although RDP is alright over a high latency connection, the best protocol is NX. VNC is cool, but slower than RDP unfortunately. NX is really quick, even over the Internet.
You wouldn't fit inside the building it has low ceilings.... I'd echo that - but that's because VNC is by nature a high bandwidth-ish thing, sends screen images back and forth rather than just input commands like RDP if you know what I mean.
Got to be honest, I'd much rather use Teamviewer over LMI, it's as close to moron-proof as you can get! Anyone used NoMachine? Looks very good, and based on NX.
Well, NoMachine is the original product that used NX. Other implementations do exist, but as far as I'm aware they are mostly for Linux and Unix-based OSes.
Since LMI has gone has anyone found a decent web based RD software. I occasionally need to access my computer from work and LMI was great as you didn't need to install anything on the client computer, which in turn keeps the IT Dept happy.
