I use teamviewer to access the miner I've left in uni halls, ver useful cause it gets straight through their firewalls which disallow server and various other remote connection methods. Teamviewer works just fine.
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I use Teamviewer, Remote Desktop Connection and UltraVNC. Teamviewer is quite awesome for even multimedia viewing/hearing. You can even use an Ipad / Android to remote into your windows PC from there. The other connection types are just in case Teamviewer crashes and I can backdoor in to restart.