Hi Phillip,

You don't need an Internet connection to do the Remote Assistance control. I
have a desktop and a laptop computer on my home network, with the laptop
running XP and connected through the wireless of my router. Instead of using
the laptop keyboard and touchpad, I sometimes use Remote Assistance to
control the laptop using my desktop - effectively using the desktop
keyboard, mouse, and display - this is what you appear to be wanting to do.

As long as the two computers can "see" each other on the network, you can
use the Remote Assistance mode. Go to the computer you want to control and
have it issue an invitation file. Save this file to a thumb drive or disk
and use it on the other computer to make the connection. When you issue the
invitation, you will have a time limit set for length of time the invite is
good for. You might want to set it to a very long time so as not have it
time out and need to generate a new invite.

Good luck

Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Williams [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:33 AM
To: Peter Shkabara
Cc: PCBUILD
Subject: Re: remote pc control

Can I use remote assistance with my wireless router if there is no internet
connection?
 I just got this router in hopes of a near future high speed connection
(dial-up for now). It's a D-Link N300 8 port and I have a usb wireless N
adapter. I've never used an ethernet connection or any other networking
between PCs so I'm a rookie in this game!

Thanks,
Phillip

On 3/26/13, Peter Shkabara <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> If you want to control the computer remotely, you can do that using 
> Windows "Remote Assistance" that is available with XP and up. It works 
> quite well and may do what you seem to want - see the display and 
> control the keyboard and mouse from a different location. The 
> controlling computer does not need to have high performance. The one 
> it is controlling is doing the actual processing work.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Peter Shkabara
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Williams [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 1:12 PM
> Subject: remote pc control
>
> Greetings all,
>
>  I have a computer set-up for live recording of my garage band. It's a 
> Pentium 4 3.20GHz hyper-threading rig with 2 gig ram, a 250 gig WD 
> SATA drive, 2 pci cards connected to (2) 8-channel microphone 
> interface units and xp home sp2 with a 2046mb paging file size setting 
> (too much ??).
>
> I'll save the question of splitting the files into smaller segments 
> for the PCsoft group but I would like to know if there's a hardware 
> solution for remote operation of the pc. I'm afraid the distance might 
> be a bit much for a typical wireless keyboard/mouse(?) but don't know 
> if there's a blue tooth option for this and if it would increase the 
> range. Also, is there a remote option for the monitor?
>
> I have other basic pcs laying around and wonder if I can use one as a 
> controller with a wireless networking setup.
>
>

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