Connect to your PC with remote deskptop on ipad ad hoc wifi (without internet)

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basically i have a pc in my room(it has wireless adapter) andi want to remote access it with my ipad in my bed. currently i am using Splashtop2 to remote access with wifi on my laptop, but my Internet connection is only 400KB/s and i dont want to hog the internet bandwidth by myself, so i am looking for a way to directly connect the pc and ipad without internet since it should be much faster and doesnt use bandwidth, so the question is how?

i have tried the tutorial on splashtop2 but it doest work
http://support-remote.splashtop.com/entries/20950653-Connect-to-your-computer-via-ad-hoc-network-with-Splashtop-Remote
 
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... basically you're trying to run a remote desktop... without it being remote?

I'm a little confused. You do realize that unless there is a physical connection running between the ipad and the computer that it is going to use the bandwidth of your router, period, right?

Right now it should NOT be connecting to the internet - you have to pay more to do that with splashtop. What it's doing is your ipad is connecting to your wireless router which then connects to your computer. The reason the internet connection slows down is because the router itself only has so much bandwidth. A more expensive router with higher bandwidth that's designed to handle many appliances at once would be the easiest fix to this.
 
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basically i want direct wfi to wfi connection (ad hoc?)between the ipad and pc without it going through router, as doing this should be faster because it is not limited by Internet speed?

i may be misunderstanding this but i am using splashtop2 paid version in local mode. so when i use remote desktop my pc upload data to a server which my my ipad then download with the bandwidth(internet)-basically like streaming a youtube video.

but are you saying in local mode my pc sent the data to the router then directly to ipad without actually using the internet? so internet speed doesnt matter anyway?
 
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Okay, yeah, it doesn't work like that. Unless you want to try to set up your PC as a wireless hotspot, they aren't going to just directly link with each other - and to set the PC up as a wireless hotspot it would have to have both a wireless connection to share and then a wired connection to actually access the internet with.


That being said, it shouldn't work the way you think it is, no. If you're on the same wifi network, there is absolutely ZERO reason for there to be any data going outside that network - it's going straight to the router and then to the PC.
 
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