Remote Access Software with Firewall Bypass

Remote Utilities is remote access software that enables you to view the remote screen and send keyboard and mouse input to the remote PC.

At the top middle of the remote access window there is a popup toolbar that contains a number of frequently used commands including: remote connection options, connection mode selector, and send/retrieve clipboard contents to/from the remote PC. You can either pin the toolbar so it stays visible all the time or hide it.

Firewall bypass

It has become standard for remote access software to provide firewall bypass capabilities when connecting over the Internet. Router or firewall configuration and setting up port forwarding rules are too complicated and time consuming or even impossible for most users.

Remote Utilities can provide firewall bypass in two ways:

• The Callback remote connection feature makes the remote PC initiate connection backward - from the host to the client. This comes in handy if the IP-address of the remote PC is unknown but a direct IP-to-IP connection is still required.
• An Internet ID feature utilizes an intermediary web-server (also known as a mediation server). This server connects the remote and viewer PCs thus making firewall bypass possible. All you need to do to access a remote PC is to know its Internet ID code (an alphanumerical code generated by the host PC) and password.

Finally, a PC with remote access software running on it can itself serve as an intermediary server to provide remote access to another PC. In Remote Utilities this feature is called Connect through host and is available in the new connection settings in the Remote Utilities Viewer.

Multiple connections support

Remote Utilities supports an unlimited number of simultaneous connections:

• The RUT-Viewer can connect to several RUT-Servers at a time.
• The RUT-Server can accept connections from several clients at once.
• The program supports multiple connections from the host to the client or vice versa with any combination of modes and remote PCs or local PCs