Remote access to your office PC

Need a quick, cheap way to get remote connectivity to your office? Take a look at GoToMyPC (www.gotomypc.com).

I recently helped a friend get setup on GoToMyPC. He works remote a couple of days a week and needs access to the network at his small business. He should have been able to use RDP or a VPN connection. Both are built into XP and are free and easy, right? Well, this is the real world. His firewall is old and can’t be configured for a VPN or RDP. Getting a new firewall, a static IP address and setting it all up would taken a few days to a week and may have cost as much as $800 for hardware and labor. Instead we set up GoToMyPC on his office PC. He can connect using his laptop (or any PC) and work as though he is at the office.

GoToMyPC worked flawlessly and he was up and running in less than an hour. There is a 30 day free trial and then it costs $20 per month or $180 per year. It will take 3 to 4 years to equal what he would have spent on the VPN solution.

If you can set up a VPN or RDP, great! If not use a tool like GoToMyPC.