The IT Nerd

LogMeIn has been a favored choice for those who wanted free remote access. Yes, they had a paid version. But unless you used it six times a day, you didn’t need it. Now you don’t have a choice but to use the paid version as the free version is now dead according to this post. If you need to use LogMeIn, this is what the company suggests:

To continue using remote access, you will need to purchase an account-level subscription of LogMeIn Pro that meets your needs based on the number of computers you want to access. Log in at LogMeIn.com to see pricing details and a link to purchase.

I’m sure that will go over very well. As in not very well at all. You’ve got a week to transfer over to a LogMeIn Pro account, and new users can try the service free for 14 days. But I would not at all be shocked if the takeup on that is very slow because of the lack of notice.

If you want to use something else, there’s not a whole lot of choice out there that’s free. There is TeamViewer, but there’s a very short time limit on the free connections. The pricing is also a bit high for the average person from where I stand if you do want to pay for TeamViewer. But other than that, there’s nothing free unless you’re someone with some degree of IT skill that’s willing to cobble something together. Perhaps some company might want to come along and provide remote access services with some degree of security at an affordable price?

It will be interesting to see what sort of blow back that LogMeIn gets from this (if any).

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