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in that case... Does your version allow you to access a PC that's
somewhere else on the internet, and not on the same local network -
for example if you leave your home PC on, can you access it from your
laptop when you go away on holiday and connect to the internet from
the hotel's connection? If your TV uses IP addresses, I'd have
thought you might not be able to do this.


Of course it does (according to TV) but I've never used it that way. I
have only experience with TV in local lan mode, so avoiding security
risks rogue access from internet.

I'm not sure you actually are; it was always my understanding that the
way TV works, even through firewalls etc., because it's designed for you
to help a person who doesn't know how to configure a firewall or even
what one is, was that both computers established a connection to a TV
server (in Germany?).

I may be wrong about this; a quick check would be - can you use it
between PCs on your "local lan", _when that LAN's connection to the
internet is absent_?

(I also thought that the "contact list" it keeps for you - of the people
[or computers] you help - was actually kept on the remote TV server, in
other words a lot like Skype. But, again, I could be wrong about that.)
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