Remote control of desktop

[Lance DeVooght]

Bruce Marshall wrote:

> On Saturday, June 26, 2010, Lance DeVooght wrote:
>> But, I was hoping that when she visits a McDonnalds or a friend's house
>> where she can get on their wifi (yes she does get into the big city
>> occasionally), then I could connect to her laptop.
> 
> But normally she uses dial-up??
> 
> Set up a dyndns  address for her....   and connect that way.   Might be
> slow but better than nothing.

No, I guess I should have made that clear.
She has NO Internet access from home.
Besides, I don't even want to contemplate how painful remote access
to a live desktop would be over a slow dial-up connection.

My sister lived with her for awhile and tried to use a dial-up account.
It was slowwwww, unreliable, and ridiculously expensive. Oh, and did I 
mention that it was sloooowwwww? She is a long way from the phone company's
point of presence, so even the, mythological, 56K was not achievable.

I read recently that there are places in rural India with better Internet
access than is available in parts of Michigan--here in the middle of the 
good ole' U S of A. Go figure.