# Question about home wireless router setup.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-home-wireless-router-setup/577747>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 9, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-home-wireless-router-setup/577747 "2011-04-09T02:39:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-home-wireless-router-setup/577747/1 "2011-04-09T02:39:57Z")

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I have a desk top in the kitchen and my kid has a laptop. Is there any way I can see what is going on on the laptop via the desktop? I don’t really feel a need to spy on her but was just wondering if such a thing is possible.

I had this thought yesterday as Verizon was running my PC remotely to do some tech support.

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-home-wireless-router-setup/577747/2 "2011-04-09T07:33:02Z")

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There are quite a few tools to do this. VNC is one I use regualrly.