As the wheel of time moves into 2022, nothing in the world seems to have changed much. Compared with 2021, the epidemic is still the same, the work is still the same, and people are still living as they were last year. Years ago, xi'an, Hangzhou and Zhengzhou had successive epidemics, and the next year it was suzhou and Tianjin. As last year, nucleic acid testing, working from home, isolation, everything follows the planned steps.
Working from home is not new to most office workers, and after more than two years of epidemic testing, people have long been accustomed to it. However, do you really know the real secret to working from home? The answer seems to be no.
Working from home means using a private computer to work from home, and for those who work and play in one, they can naturally switch seamlessly. However, for most small partners, the computer used at work and the computer used by private use are very clear, and once they suddenly receive a notice that they need to work from home, the difficulties they face are naturally not small. Remote control software may be a good idea for this.
Remote control, people at home "soul" in the company
Today's epidemic prevention situation strives to be precise and fast, and once a city encounters an epidemic, the relevant personnel will receive quarantine instructions within one day. For office workers, there is often no time to back up the files in their computers. The text workers are also fine, the data can be saved in the cloud, and it is not troublesome to deal with. For video workers, designers and other small partners who need to deal with large files, the data required for work is often as many as hundreds of gigabytes, and it is impossible to save in real time.
In the face of this situation, the synchronous network disk cannot be solved, the cloud storage cannot be solved, and the U disk storage is also difficult to solve. Unless you bring a portable hard disk everywhere, and import files to the portable hard disk every day for saving. If you find it troublesome, give the remote control software a try.
Speaking of remote control, the earliest in the technology of the bull popular, can be used to remote work, remote demonstration, remote hang-up upgrade, and later with the birth of sunflower, Teamviewer and other special software, remote control threshold greatly reduced, become everyone can easily get started office assistant.
In principle, the remote control software is deployed on the company's host, and the extranet can remotely view and edit computer data anytime and anywhere through mobile phones, tablets, computers and other types of devices.
For example, if you make PPT in the company the first day, and the next day you are suddenly told to work from home, you can remotely control the company's computer through your own computer and continue the PPT production work. Whether at home or at work, daily work is seamless. To some extent, remote control software allows us to realize the "soul" of people at home in the company.
Which is stronger in remote control?
Knowing the importance of remote control software, you need to choose a software that suits you. The more established products in China are sunflowers, and the rising stars are todesk. Today, Xiaohei tested these two remote control software separately to see who is a good helper for everyone to work from home.
Sunflower remote control software, as a national product, has developed a variety of products such as remote office, remote game, remote control of mobile devices and so on. Considering that functions such as remote games have little effect on ordinary white-collar workers, XiaoHei only tested remote office functions this time.
Sunflower remote control software is divided into windows, MACOS, Android, iOS, Linux five types, including all mainstream devices.
The remote control software interface is relatively simple, the home page displays the local identification code and the local verification code, the right side is the partner identification code and verification code, enter the corresponding numbers or letters, you can control the partner's equipment. Of course, the partner here does not refer to the equipment of other partners, but to other equipment, and the various devices are partners.
Compared to the Sunflower app interface, the todesk home page interface is simpler, with many fewer reminder interfaces and no password entry interface. In a comprehensive comparison, Xiaohei feels that the todesk UI design is more beautiful and is not easy to cause aesthetic fatigue. In the case of similar functions, Xiao Black prefers to choose todesk.
On connected devices, todesk implemented a completely free personal version at the end of last year, allowing you to enjoy 100 devices logging in at the same time without spending money. Xiao Hei counted the equipment used daily, plus the tablet is only 6 in total, not to mention 100 units, 10 devices are also enough for Xiao Hei.
On Sunflower's side, free users also have 100 device access. In this regard, the two software are on par. For the average user, the number of devices is not an issue, and for operations that need to remotely manage multiple devices at the same time, the capacity of 100 devices is more than enough.
Remote control, divided into mobile phone / tablet control, computer control computer, computer control computer and computer control mobile phone / tablet. Considering that the office is mainly computer-oriented, Xiaohei mainly tests the control of mobile phones, tablets and computers on computers.
▲ Remote control computer interface
The first is that the computer controls the computer, which is the most convenient to operate. The mouse, keyboard, interface and interaction mode are all exactly the same, and they can be used smoothly. Using a computer to control the office host at the remote end is exactly the same as using the office host face-to-face. In this regard, the difference between todesk and sunflowers is not large.
▲ Sunflower mobile phone controls the computer
Then the mobile phone controls the computer, use apple or Android mobile phone to download the corresponding software, enter the device code and password to remotely control the computer. In this regard, Sunflower does a better job, both in terms of sensitivity and feature richness of using a mobile phone to control the mouse. If you use a mobile phone to remotely control the computer, Xiao Hei will definitely prefer sunflowers. Xiao Hei tried to use Sunflower's remote mobile phone to write, and his work efficiency was not inferior to that of computer control.
▲ Sunflowers are fully functional
Of course, during the test, Xiao Black also found the difference between sunflowers and ToDesk. Sunflowers are more safety-conscious, and ToDesk is more about convenience. Taking device connection as an example, sunflower requires entering the device code and password each time, while ToDesk can use device A to control device B multiple times a day without having to re-enter the password.
Two ways of login control mean different ideas. Xiao Hei himself basically uses remote control software at home, and will not use it in outdoor places such as cafes, which can determine the safety of remote equipment. Therefore, Xiaohei prefers to ToDesk, which is a control method that does not need to repeatedly enter the device number and password, which is very convenient to use.
In addition to software interaction, network transmission speed is also a key factor in determining the quality of remote control software. Sunflower has a speed limit for free users, while ToDesk Personal is completely free. In terms of image quality, the image quality of Sunflower Free users is relatively blurry, and compared with ToDesk's HD picture quality, sunflower quality is indeed a bit distorted.
For text workers, the picture quality problem has little impact, but for designers, picture quality has a great impact on the use experience. Taken together, Xiao Hei feels that ToDesk is more practical, and Sunflower needs to open a membership to enjoy the top experience.
How to solve the problem of switching on and off
Remote control, thousands of miles away can also be operated freely. However, what should I do when my computer is turned off?
In response to this problem, ToDesk developed a remote on-off function. Use your phone to remotely control your computer and directly control power-on and shutdown. When he first used the feature, Little Black was shocked and mistakenly believed that ToDesk had invented a shocking new technology. When it came to finding the boot principle, Xiao Hei found that this is just a kind of WOL wake-up-on-LAN technology. The implementation is very simple, through the other end of the LAN to order it, so that it wakes up from the shutdown state and returns to the operational state.
▲ Remote power on
The reason why Xiaohei was successful in the test is because the mobile phone and the computer are under the same LAN, and they do not really simulate the remote control state. Wait until Xiao Hei returned home and used the remote boot function again, but the computer in the distance has not responded.
Also a boot problem, the sunflower treatment method is obviously more scientific. Separate development of a boot stick, one end connected to the charger, one end connected to the network cable port, can achieve remote boot.
▲ Boot stick
In principle, both use WOL wake-on-LAN technology. ToDesk requires a phone, tablet, or other computer to be on the same LAN as the awakened computer to use remote power on. Sunflower directly uses the boot stick as this LAN device, and then connects with the remote device through the boot stick to achieve remote boot.
With the boot stick, you don't have to worry about switching on and off, as long as the computer is connected to the power supply, you can remotely control the computer as you want.
Today, as the epidemic continues, working from home has begun to become popular. Companies represented by Ctrip have begun to pilot hybrid offices. Five working days a week, one or two days from home. If Ctrip's hybrid office model can be popularized, then remote control software will become an indispensable office assistant for everyone. With it, we are not afraid of the epidemic, we are not afraid of working from home, and we can cope with the challenges of work in any environment.
Image source: Sunflower, ToDesk, pixabay