# Alternative to Logmein.com?

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [August 14, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alternative-to-logmein-com/53237 "2008-08-14T13:06:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alternative-to-logmein-com/53237/6 "2008-08-14T13:30:56Z")

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I’ve heard that you can run a VNC client, then just call the IP addy:port to control it but found VNC to be a little more cumbersome (not exactly fast)

edit: Yeah, I know… but I don’t want to have to ask the owner of the machine to install software to run it or computers with limited administrative privileges

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