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Great product but their business pricing is CRAZY. What's everyone else using? Splashtop Pro seems very reasonable @ $8.25/month/user


 
Posted : 16/03/2020 2:22 pm
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Good question. There's shedloads of alternatives but most start getting expensive quickly.

Try Cloudberry - it's hard to argue with a pricing structure of "free" even for business use.
https://www.msp360.com/remote-assistant.aspx

What are using it for? Most of our internal remote support these days just goes through desktop sharing in MS Teams I think.


 
Posted : 16/03/2020 2:28 pm
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... I should probably add, Cloudberry was slow as arse when I tried it but seemed otherwise great, and I'm 99% certain that it was slow because of the POS hardware I was connecting too rather than a problem with the software itself. Let me know how you get on if you take a look at it.


 
Posted : 16/03/2020 2:35 pm
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Ta, Cloudberry was looking good until I read it was Windows only!

This would be to provide small business remote IT support (mainly Macs).


 
Posted : 16/03/2020 2:51 pm
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Ah, a critical piece of information there!

If it's internal support over a secure network there's always VNC. I wouldn't want to use it over the public intertubes without some sort of VPN or other tunnelling though.

There's loads of others I've used historically. LogMeIn, GoToMyPC and a supporting cast of thousands. Which ones have Mac clients and a reasonable business pricing model though, I've no idea. I'd be surprised if there isn't a comparison page on Wikipedia (I'll go look.)


 
Posted : 16/03/2020 3:13 pm
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... and there is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software


 
Posted : 16/03/2020 3:14 pm
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Thanks, will take a look. It's for over the internet. Internally we use the Mac built-in Remote Desktop which uses the VNC protocol and works great. Like you say, not ideal for internet. I have used a VPN in the past but discontinued it as it was very flakey (not really my area of expertise tbh!) Something like TeamViwer will "just work" so is preferable!


 
Posted : 16/03/2020 3:25 pm
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What you could do perhaps, if you wanted to dodge licensing costs, is set up a jump server at a location. So you TeamViewer onto a designated machine then Remote Desktop to the final target from there.

It's not very scaleable and might be a bit slow, but on the other hand it means you've not got every machine on the network open to inbound Internet connections. Probably not the best solution over a proper secure client but figured I'd throw it out there.


 
Posted : 16/03/2020 3:58 pm
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We use AnyDesk, sounds like Splashtop is cheaper if you fit within their 'pro' licence.

AnyDesk performs as well or better than TeamViewer.

TeamViewer Free is not a good solution, the account/PC will get blocked at some point.


 
Posted : 16/03/2020 4:51 pm

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