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So I have a very powerful home PC and I travel with some regularity and have been toying with the idea of buying a laptop so I can play games/edit photos+video/etc when not at home. Assuming I have access to very good internet at my home as well as where I'll be remotely, is it in any way feasible to actually just remotely access my home PC (SSH?) and use it from a laptop? Would this just be way too laggy or otherwise impractical? Is this something whereby I could set up a VM and remotely access it? Not thinking about playing twitch shooters or something but card games or story based single player RPG kinda stuff, and editing using adobe LR or Davinci Resolve. I've used windows remote access to help family with computer stuff and it's been less than the ideal experience but figure maybe someone has developed a better remote desktop solution. It would be great to be able to leverage the hardware from the home PC and not have to look at the really high end laptops.
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Jul 14, 2019 13:22
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GigaFuzz posted:Look into Parsec. It's been the most successful out of the options I've tried (Steam, Moonlight) for games. Thanks, I'll check it out. SlowBloke posted:What is your home wan upload speed? Anything less than a stable 15Mbps will mean either dropped frames or screen degradation. Input lag will be an issue too. I get a stable 15Mbps but probably not much more. I haven't done sustained testing.
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Jul 14, 2019 13:42
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SlowBloke posted:I would suggest doing some extensive upload testing before investing time or money for this project. If you don't have any idea on your limits you might end up chasing ghosts when your line is acting up. poo poo that's cool actually. I was expecting to be told that it's not possible etc. How powerful would the remote hardware have to be? I would expect not really that powerful but I could see there being some kind of CPU bottleneck? I do have unlimited bandwidth cap so would be cool to not have to compress any more than needed.
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Jul 14, 2019 14:25
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SlowBloke posted:Just checked, Win10 RDP is using H264 under the bonnet. You can do it software or hardware -accelerated encoding(on the powerful host). If you have a recent gpu(with nvenc or vce)/cpu(wit quicksync) you might want to set these two local GPO settings https://social.technet.microsoft.co...rum=winserverTS so the gpu hardware is used to offload some cpu. Thanks I'll look into all of this. I use PIA and my router could be DD-WRT enabled I just never really had the impetus previously. I suppose it should be easy to VPN the router through PIA. I have a 2080ti so should be able to change those GPO settings. Thanks for the help everyone.
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Jul 14, 2019 15:43
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Is there any way to test a router? My WRT1900AC which I bought when it came out however many years ago has had a few instances of it getting rained on (was on a nightstand by a window that was left open). It's now in a less stupid place in my home but I swear now and then it drops wireless signal to my phone (I'll notice it turn on/off/on at the top of my phone). Seems alright from my wired PC connection but I'd like to see if it's starting to gently caress up a little.
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Jul 21, 2019 21:14
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Schadenboner posted:I'm concerned their founder might be a Because he's white or is there some hidden nazi thing I don't see?
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Jul 27, 2019 17:56
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Hopefully a quick question, I felt it more appropriate for this thread than the android thread. I have a media server on my home network, and when at home I sometimes use VLC on my phone to watch something from my server via the LAN (not plex, etc). The local network is seen easily by VLC and I'm able to navigate into shared folders normally. It's actually a relatively slick experience, great. I use openVPN to vpn into my home network with my phone to RDP into the server, and this works great. I just tried to connect via the VPN (success) to use VLC in this same way from outside my home network and it can't see anything on the network. Is this expected behavior? Shouldn't this work as the phone is essentially in the LAN again? This clearly represents a hole in my networking knowledge and I'd like to understand why this isn't working. Thanks!
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Feb 22, 2021 08:27
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I'm having intermittent connection downtime which I strongly suspect is my notoriously bad ISP, however I would like to log this in a way more elegant than running a long /ping command overnight and all day. I've seen some network connectivity analyzer software but it looks pretty sketchy. Has anyone heard of this for example? It would do exactly what I want but it screams malware. I'd love to hear any other solution anyone might have. I have a server on windows that I leave running 100% of the time so it could be grabbing this data. Actually I'd be curious to know if anyone has any ideas about other things I should be looking at which could be the source of my issues, so here's the quick story:
I don't think this is an IP conflict issue or anything like that. The local network never goes down - just the internet connection. Anything I can try? I've unplugged the modem multiple times to try to reset it's connection to the ISP.
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Apr 29, 2022 18:00
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DrDork posted:The ISP is Comcast. Sooo, yeah. Their (in)ability to provide stable connections is a prime reason several friends of mine have skipped off to other services. Sadly their market-monopoly tactics can make that a challenge in many areas. I'm one of the dozens of people that live outside the USA, the ISP is actually 'Shaw'. It might be the same infrastructure. I've heard horrible things about Comcast, this is our version of that evil. Apparently there is an xb7 modem that the tech is bringing today, maybe that will help! The RIPE atlas thing sounds interesting. I'll read more about it but from an InfoSec perspective I'd want to have root control over anything I'm plugging into my network, just to ensure it's not an unintended vulnerability. e: looks like the probes actually do have great documentation with source code/APIs on their site. Can even use command line, neat. VelociBacon fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Apr 29, 2022 |
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Apr 29, 2022 20:23
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I was checking the Atlas site for other things and noticed that Comcast is sponsoring them - which is hilarious. I feel like you can get whatever ISP at pretty much any address here (in a main Canadian city), it's mostly about whether fiber has been ran to your building or not. In my case I'm in a building built in 1999 and my connection is over DOCSIS. I was typing this out on my phone and my internet connection dropped again, with the new modem displaying the LED debug code for 'upstream registration'. Guess I'm escalating whatever on the ISP side tomorrow. I've ran multiple scans with malwarebytes and windows AV and have found nothing. The ISP tech seemed to know more or less what he was doing from the hardware side and suggested that it could be malicious code on my pc affecting the modem. I've never heard of someone going after modem access after they have the ability to remotely issue commands on a machine in the LAN so I dunno how much I believe that.
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Apr 30, 2022 11:04
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Yeah, if you've got any kind of DOCSIS, since it's a shared medium you might have a chat with the other people you share a CMTS with, to hear whether they experience anything like it - if they do, you know it's a bigger issue than the ISPs are making it out to be, and if not you've pretty much isolated it to your own setup. Yeah there's over a hundred units in my tower and everything is clean for the other units, the tech yesterday called in a favor with a buddy back at the ISP and they were checking it. And yeah seems like quite a reach. I'd sooner think there was electromagnet interference causing it to reboot or something wacky.
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Apr 30, 2022 16:21
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Azhais posted:I still just installed Parsec and connect to it remotely Did you have to manually unpack it? Feels like a huge vulnerability for HP to allow staff to run foreign executables even if you didn't have to run the setup.exe on it. I manually unpacked Diablo 2 at one of my first hospital jobs onto my partition of the shared network drive because I would be there all night without a call sometimes.
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May 20, 2022 00:15
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Been using PIA for a long time and love it.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:My sibling in Christ, I got some bad news for you. Yeah I've heard bad stuff about them (mostly just that they don't really keep no logs man! but I guess I don't really care because the price is fine, it works great across different platforms, the speed is acceptable, you get a ton of installs per license, and like you say I'm just using it to avoid letters. To be honest when I hear people get REALLY uptight about whether or not their real identity is recorded by the VPN company they use I assume they're doing disgusting poo poo that I would find loathsome, or they have a heightened interest in cybersecurity/data privacy that extends beyond what they actually need to worry about. For me I just consider it a yearly fee to be able to access the content I want. I know I could set up my own server boxes on the other side of the planet and hop through three different ones in various countries and everything else to serve the same purpose but for my needs it's pointless. If someone did want to do 100% fully remote infrastructure penetration and had some 0-days I'd expect they would use a port scanning tool to find vulnerable/unpatched personal/commercial routers and would just execute their payloads from that IP, I dunno how many people are sitting at their home/business and trying to be malicious while relying on a consumer VPN. It's good info for other people in the thread who want to be extra careful though. e: my line of work is clinical informatics I'm not sure if you're confusing me with another goon
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