You can try Wireguard / Tailscale for easy VPN setup on your laptop, install the client app on your ipad, and use SSH app to connect to your device's terminal.

I'd suggest if you need your laptop just for coding, maybe setup remote SSH? You can setup VPN to access your laptop's terminal everywhere, and it needs far less bandwith than remote desktop using full desktop. Again, if your wifi is really bad, there's nothing that'll help your remote experience. Not to mention, your laptop should have proper upload speed, too.īut I've heard so many great things using RDP if you're on windows, so I suggest you to check for that. But when the wifi is choppy, sometimes I'll need to change the desktop color to black and white to reduce bandwith usage, and it still makes me nauseous. Their Fluid protocol is quite great at handling connection. When I had proper wifi (doesn't need super high speed wifi), Jump works really great and I can even watch youtube flawlessly since it can transfer the device's audio to my iPad, and the audio syncs great with the youtube video. but when you say 'no lag' paired with 'wifi is terrible', it is almost impossible, and it's not the app's fault. Sometimes I even work with video editing apps and blender there. I use Jump to remote into my mac mini all the time and it feels great. And would I need to keep my laptop on all the time in order to use remote? And needs to work with keyboard and Apple Pencil.Įdit: I also use a laptop, not sure if that changes anything. Primarily need it for coding (in Java), researching with a browser, and maybe gaming (not essential though, and not sure how that would work).

I preferably don't want any monthly or yearly subscriptions as they are annoying and need it to be very smooth, with basically no lag, because my school wifi is already terrible. So I did some digging, and there are a few apps that I've seen people like Jump, AnyDesk, VNC Viewer, Parallels, Splashtop, and TeamViewer. Be able to access your Windows laptop from anywhere and have it save all the progress you make on either devices? Unreal. But recently I found out about Remote Desktop, and couldn't believe it. I have barely used, it due to the fact that I can't do Windows things on it, especially code/programming. I'm a student and want to use my iPad Pro a lot more.

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