How to connect my laptop to my desktp pc via a wireless internet connection using remote desktop

ok int the desktop click left click on my computer and select properties.  Click on the Remote tab, there will be two boxes one is to allow remote assistance the other below that is Remote desktop click it and then select apply and then ok.  Make sure that users are defined and passwords are setup.

word of caution on this.... make sure that you either have a firewall in place and or use it to protect the PC or you disable the remote desktop when not in use... this is a very big security risk.

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Scott

Are you behind a router? If not, then it's much simpler... on your laptop, just use the Remote Desktop Connection client and connect to your home desktop's IP.

If you ARE behind a router, then on your router configuration, you need to forward TCP port 3389 to your desktop's internal IP address.

I would recomend doing port forwarding if you can and make the port something besides 3389 due to everyone on the planet knowing what that port is in the past I have used like 6889 so in the remote connection you just add the port to it.

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scott

I am behind a router . Furthermore I want to connect via internet and not my local network

what type of your your box that your desktop connected to?  because your outside port can be anything but it needs to tranlate to 3389 on the inside.

You also want to make sure that you can connect to it on the LAN first if that is good then worry about the router also make sure that in the windows firewall you are accepting the incoming request.

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Scott

I am using a Linksys router connected to my sattellite modem .

Broken;

Are you at home or away?  have you tried connecting on the LAN yet?  The satelite will introduce about a 1 second latencey by the time a packet makes the trip.  So your desk top experiance would be best achieved with lower settings under the options.  The back channel is were your problem comes in .... your upstream max is likley to be max at 120 Kb best case situation.  more realistically it will be about 50Kb or less; so I would use dialup settings to start when you create the profile for desktop sharing.  

in the Linksys you will have a section that is called port range forwarding were you will set this up. Please refer to your manual or the linksys page for specifics to your router at home.

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scott

Also keep your eye out for other similar VPN / VNC Remote Desktop Software.
 for example, you could visit:   www.tightvnc.com    and download this 100% free software which is good because you don't have to log off the user on your desktop to use it. The program (divided into Server and Listening apps) reside in your system tray, you specify passwords in the program that don't need to be the same as your account passwords and you can change compression settings for either speed or quality of picture sent. You can always tell when someone uses this app to control your PC because A) your wallpaper is temp' removed and B) the VNC icon in the sys tray changes colour (from white to black i think)