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GoToMyPC Review
GoToMyPC.com is our favorite PC remote access service and gets our No. 1 Choice Award in this category! Read our review below to find out why... |
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- GoToMyPC Home
- One PC: $19.95 per month
- Two PCs: $29.95 per month
- 3-20 PCs: $14.98 per month extra per PC
- If paying annually the cost is reduced by 25% on all Home plans
- GoToMyPC Pro
- Pay Monthly
- 2-20 PCs: $16.95 per PC per month
- 21-50 PCs: $14.00 per PC per month
- Pay annually
- 2-20 PCs: $12.95 per PC per month
- 21-50 PCs: $10.50 per PC per month
- GoToMyPC Corporate provides custom solutions for more than 50 PCs
- Excellent software for accessing your PC through a web browser
- Access your files with ease
- Use the programs installed on your PC
- Access any networks your PC is connected to
- Increase your flexibility and productivity
- Work on your office PC from home
- Travel and use your PC remotely
- End to end encryption keeps your data secure
- Simple and user friendly interface
- Data centers located throughout the world maximize reliability and scalability
- Firewall friendly - no need to set up complicated router and firewall settings
- Responsive interface through appropriate use of compression techniques
- Provides access to up to 20 PCs
- Supports dynamically assigned IP addresses
- Invite users to view your PC screen and take control
- Access your PC from virtually any operating system
- One click file synchronization option
- Support for multiple monitors
- Match the screen resolution between host and target PC
- Mobile edition to access your PC from a Pocket PC
- Corporate version available
- Free 24/7 technical support
- Free software and service upgrades
- Free 30 day trial available online
- The computer being accessed must be running Windows
GoToMyPC is one of the best PC remote access solutions around at the moment. It overcomes all the usual difficulties associated with accessing a computer remotely to make it easy enough for home users to get to grips with, but powerful enough to satisfy the requirements of business users. For whatever the reason you want to be able to access a computer remotely, GoToMyPC will help you do it quickly, easily and at a very reasonable price.
If you are reading this and are interested in a remote PC access solution you most likely fit somewhere between the following categories: A home user who wants to access their PC while travelling, a business user who wants to access their work computer from home or a contractor who often works from different locations. Perhaps you spent a long day in the office and forgot to bring a vital file home with you or you are on vacation and want to check your home PC for emails. Whatever your needs are it is more than likely that GoToMyPC caters for them and then some.
The main function of the software is to give you access to everything on a PC in a remote location through the computer you are currently working on. This isn't just access to the files - which would be possible in a variety of ways - but rather access to the whole computer, its programs and the network it is connected to. So, for example, you could use the computer to download a file from the LAN it is connected to, edit the file using an installed application, save it and copy it over to the computer you are actually in front of. Basically anything that can be done on the remote PC can be controlled from another location using GoToMyPC.
The way GoToMyPC works is to let you log into the remote PC through a web browser which allows you to see its desktop and manipulate anything on it as if you were directly in front of the computer. You must first install the client application on the PC you want to access, which only takes a few minutes, and then you can use the PC through any web browser (on any operating system) by simply logging into the GoToMyPC web site. Once logged in you are shown a list of the PCs that are available to you and you can access them simply by clicking on the icon.
The trouble with many remote access tools in the past was that they were very difficult to set up and keep working due to the fact that most PCs are behind firewalls or connect to the internet through a router. This makes it difficult for an intruder outside of the local network or the firewall to connect to a computer inside, but at the same time makes it difficult for legitimate reasons too. GoToMyPC uses an innovative method to get round these problems so that the software can work behind home or office firewalls as well as through complex network arrangements. As long as both the local and remote PC have an internet connection there won't be a problem getting connected.
One of the benifits of not having to worry about firewall and router configurations is that GoToMyPC will work simply and easily from a company PC that sits behind a huge web of complex protection mechanisms. This means IT managers don't have to reconfigure their networks and makes it a simple method for providing staff with a home working solution. A corporate version of GoToMyPC is available for just such purposes and can work out as a very cost effective solution.
Although GoToMyPC manages to get round firewalls and routers, it does so in a completely safe and secure manner which doesn't compromise your PC or network. First of all there is a two layer password system whereby you must have a password to log into the website and then separate passwords for each computer you want to access through it - the individual computer passwords are also set and stored on the local machine which significantly reduces the chance of hackers intercepting them. Secondly, all the data that is transferred between the remote PC and the one you are working from is encrypted using proven technology. Finally, you have a number of failsafe options to lock intruders out when accessing a remote computer, such as locking the mouse and keyboard or blanking the screen. When combined, all of these features make GoToMyPC an extremely secure solution for accessing a remote PC and mean that you should never have to worry about intruders gaining unauthorized access.
If you are looking for a way of accessing a PC remotely for home or business purposes GoToMyPC is an excellent choice of software. It is so easy to set up that even novice home users will manage to get it working in no time and the security features mean that it won't compromise the integrity of a company network. The price is extremely reasonable and gets better the more PCs you buy licenses for. We highly recommend GoToMyPC and award it the number one position in our top ten list of remote PC Access tools.
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