jamesgig
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- Harrisburg, PA
I am starting my college shopping list and need some help with my computer setup. I am fairly knowledgeable in hardware and individual systems, but when it comes to networking and remote access, i am pretty much a beginner.
I work a lot with the Adobe suite so I need a desktop for performance and a low mid level laptop for portability. So far so go, i can wire the desktop into the school's network and find wifi access points on campus or wherever else i go for the laptop. So both are connected to the internet, but not necessarily to the same network (dont think this matters).
I will have a printer in my dorm room that will be connected either directly to my desktop, or to a wired router between the college network and my computer depending on the answers to my following questions.
If I am out with my laptop and want to print a document to my own printer for when I return, what is the easiest and least expensive way to accomplish this? Is there any "remote printer" software similar to remote desktop that would allow me to print to a printer attached to a router so that I dont have to leave my desktop on heating my room all the time? Or would I have to just go through remote desktop?
Since storage costs money, and there is no benefit to storing the same file multiple places (I already have a backup at home and on an external drive), does remote desktop work well for storing files/accessing files or is there a simpler solution? From my reading of microsoft's description, using remote desktop locks the host computer. If I am just accessing files and not using any programs, is there a way to allow me to do work on both computers at the same time for the purpose of having more available display space or would that require another program? Would it just be best to hard wire the two computers to a router in this case?
I have been doing some research, but am having a hard time finding performance information on remote desktop applications. If I am on my laptop which will be slower than my desktop and access my desktop through remote desktop, will the performance be the same as the desktop? Obviously bandwidth limitations will cause slow downs during any file transfers, but in Photoshop, Premiere, or similar apps, where it it mostly just applying filters to previews, will the performance be similar once the program is opened? I may have the entire concept of remote desktop confused, if so, please correct me or send me to a place with a good general description.
How do I back up files to a computer at home for backup purposes without monopolizing the system? Basically, I just want the networked computers screen so that I can copy files to a drive at home.
Thanks for the help
I work a lot with the Adobe suite so I need a desktop for performance and a low mid level laptop for portability. So far so go, i can wire the desktop into the school's network and find wifi access points on campus or wherever else i go for the laptop. So both are connected to the internet, but not necessarily to the same network (dont think this matters).
I will have a printer in my dorm room that will be connected either directly to my desktop, or to a wired router between the college network and my computer depending on the answers to my following questions.
If I am out with my laptop and want to print a document to my own printer for when I return, what is the easiest and least expensive way to accomplish this? Is there any "remote printer" software similar to remote desktop that would allow me to print to a printer attached to a router so that I dont have to leave my desktop on heating my room all the time? Or would I have to just go through remote desktop?
Since storage costs money, and there is no benefit to storing the same file multiple places (I already have a backup at home and on an external drive), does remote desktop work well for storing files/accessing files or is there a simpler solution? From my reading of microsoft's description, using remote desktop locks the host computer. If I am just accessing files and not using any programs, is there a way to allow me to do work on both computers at the same time for the purpose of having more available display space or would that require another program? Would it just be best to hard wire the two computers to a router in this case?
I have been doing some research, but am having a hard time finding performance information on remote desktop applications. If I am on my laptop which will be slower than my desktop and access my desktop through remote desktop, will the performance be the same as the desktop? Obviously bandwidth limitations will cause slow downs during any file transfers, but in Photoshop, Premiere, or similar apps, where it it mostly just applying filters to previews, will the performance be similar once the program is opened? I may have the entire concept of remote desktop confused, if so, please correct me or send me to a place with a good general description.
How do I back up files to a computer at home for backup purposes without monopolizing the system? Basically, I just want the networked computers screen so that I can copy files to a drive at home.
Thanks for the help
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