Can Wizard do VPNs and RDP?

[Guest Matt Kirby]

Hi!

Quick question, I'm trying to get work to upgrade my phone to a Wizard (prob. an 02 XDA Mini S).

I work in IT support and we use VPNs and either a Remote Desktop connection (RDP) or

Net Support Manager to connect to our clients- and a mobile solution would be great for out-of-hours support.

Before I tell work how great the Wizard is, has anyone used VPNs and RDP on one?

From what I've investigated both are possible, but I wondered what the "real world" usage was like. Does the VPN drop out, is the RDP slow, etc, etc.

Or have I been mis-informed, and the Wizard doesn't do it?

[Guest daftveggie]

My real world usage is still a little artificial

wifi into my network and control of a xp pro pc over Remote desktop is ok.

The main problems are obviously the screen size, which you can get used to, and the processing abilities of the vario.

If you want to do basic stuff, you should be ok, but to do anything that would have a large screen footprint, or have a constantly changing screen, I found the vario sluggish.

Not sure how it would fair over grps, me thinks not to well given the drop in bandwidth.

[Guest ultimate_fish]

I haven't been able to get this to work at all I'm afraid.

I've tried connecting via PPTP VPN and, as far as I can tell, it works. But then trying to make an RDP connection just doesn't work.

In theory it's possible so I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.

My network connection is wi-fi when I'm trying to make this work.

[Guest ultimate_fish]

I've just had a play and this seems to be what happens.

If I connect to the PPTP VPN it connects fine. Using VXutil I can ping a server within the private network.

However as soon as I try to actually make a connection with internet explorer or the RDP client, the vario drops the VPN connection.

I've tried every variation of network connection settings I can think of and either the VPN won't connect at all, or it gets dropped as soon as I try to use it.

Very frustrating.

Edited March 7, 2006 by ultimate_fish

[Guest ultimate_fish]

AHA!!!!! I take it all back. Just got it working.

The secret is to set the network card (wifi) as connection to work. Then setup the VPN in my work network, and set my work network to have internet access.

I can now connect to a win2k server to tweak stuff while drinking coffee in starbucks.

[Guest Matt Kirby]

Thanks for all of your input, it's all very useful.

I suspected that GPRS would be a bit slow, but I was hoping that it would be useable when there is no other option.

Sounds like it's do-able after tweaking and playing about with it.

[Guest ultimate_fish]

Just given it a quick try over GPRS and it's not bad at all. If you go with T-Mobile their network supports EDGE, which is a good bit quicker than any of the other GPRS networks around.

However GPRS makes a good fall back but more often than not you'll be able to get to a wi-fi hotspot.