HOW TO… Access your PC remotely from any other PC
What you need: DWService software; Windows 10 or 11 Time required: One hour
There’s no shortage of ways to make sure you can access your files everywhere, but your options will have restrictions if you stick to a free account. Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) starts you off with just 2GB of free storage, while a free Box account (www.box.com) limits you to files smaller than 250MB. This may be fine for documents, but what about movies and backups?
Mega (https://mega.io) doesn’t limit file sizes and gives free users a very generous 20GB of storage, but it might restrict your data-transfer speed, depending on how busy the service is. One way to overcome these problems is to run your own online-storage service.
WD’s My Cloud range of external hard drives connect to your home network and are accessible over the web, so you can open your files from anywhere in the world. They’re keenly priced, too. You can pick up a 3TB My Cloud drive for a), which strikes us as pretty good value for money.
