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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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ever-handy ping, so try this!

1. Run ping on some known source, such as www.microsoft.com or

www.totalsem.com.

2. When the ping finishes, take note of the average round-trip time at

the bottom of the screen. This is your current latency to that site.

Remote Desktop

While folders and printers might be the primary things shared over a network,

sometimes it would be convenient to be “transported” to another computer—

to feel as if your hands were actually on its keyboard. There are plenty of

programs that do exactly this, generically called remote desktops.

NOTE Because “remote desktop” is a generic term, you may find some

programs with confusingly similar names. Microsoft and Apple both at one

point made a program called Remote Desktop (the latter is a paid offering),

though Microsoft’s version is called Remote Desktop Connection in current

versions of Windows. Then there’s Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection

for Mac, which is just for enabling macOS machines to connect to a

Windows remote desktop.

While some operating systems include a remote desktop client, many

third-party remote desktop applications are also available. Most of these

make use of either the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or Virtual Network

Computing (VNC). TightVNC, for example, is totally cross-platform,

enabling you to run and control a Windows system remotely from your Mac

or vice versa, for example. Figure 21-38 shows TightVNC in action.

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