Comments on: MyWebExPC – Remotely Access Your PC

By: Wilsen

Wilsen — Fri, 26 May 2006 05:46:14 +0000

TightVNC is free and allow you to remote access, it’s just only the user don’t how to use it. TightVNC allow you to set the port number that you want to use, eg: 5900/5800 5901/5801 etc….

For remote access there is no need to use DDNS those thing, DDNS if you want to host your application or other application, and you need to configure your router if you are using router, virtual server/port forwarding in order to trigger the specified port that you preset dude.

By: Antony

Antony — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:15:01 +0000

Well, VNC is indeed free and has several variants (TightVNC, RealVNC) but it requires a lot of technical expertise if you are to use it in a DSL environment where you IP address is constantly changing. In this case you need to use it in conjunction of a dynamic DNS service (some of these services are free, like DynDNS). So if you’re not technical that’s not trivial. I personally did that until I found WebEx and LogMeIn, which save me the trouble and are free. Note that they will charge you for file transfer. For this I recommend beinsync (http://www.beinsync.com).

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:12:03 +0000

Looking at the feature list, MyWebExPC Free seems to offer less features than Microsoft Remote Desktop and LogMeIn (I am talking about the free versions), in that MyWebExPc Free doesn’t support any kind of File Transfer.
Which is odd, to say the least. However, MyWebExPc Free will as server on Windows 95 unlike remote desktop so I guess it has a usage there.
The paid for version costs either $9.95/PC/Month or $7.95 ($89.4) if you sign up for the Pro version. At this pricing it is competing with GoToMyPc, which feature wise it seems to fall down against. (A comparison of the features is available at http://www.groovyweb.uklinux.net/conferencing/index.php?page_name=MyWebEx%20PC%20Free&category=MyWebExPc)

Of interest, however, is the phone authentication. The security is 128-Bit as you would expect with any remote desktop application, so I don’t agree with the above poster that LogMeIn provides greater security as they seem to have the same level encryption.

By: Sean Johansen

Sean Johansen — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:48:18 +0000

It’s definitely not the first free remote access. LogMeIn free has been available for several months and doesn’t cap free computers at 5. LogMeIn is also much more secure that MyWebexPC.