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Network
You reach the NAS, printer or camera at home from anywhere through one of your computers as the gateway. The devices in the home network do not need DeskRanger.
Shown: Mac
You reach your home network on the go: a Mac or Windows PC at home makes its local network reachable for all your other devices. Everything that runs through your network on the way is end-to-end encrypted.
A card shows the path from you through the access device into the local network. A note tells you whether your device offers the network itself, whether it is reachable through another device or whether that one is currently off.
DeskRanger works this out with the access device at home, not by the name of a Wi-Fi, because anyone can pick that freely. DeskRanger shows your Wi-Fi name only when you switch it on.
If the usual device is missing, another one that offers the same network steps in. A backup you chose comes before the automatic one.
If the access device shares its list, you see the devices that announce themselves in the home network: printers, NAS, speakers and TVs with name, type and address, with filter and search.
Everything step by step, for every platform:
No. Only the devices of your network need DeskRanger, the devices in the home network do not.
Then the network shows as unreachable. If another device offers the same network, it steps in as the backup.
Your devices reach each other under simple names and fixed addresses, end-to-end encrypted and only among themselves. You do not need to open anything on your router.
On hotel or café Wi-Fi you go online through one of your own computers, as if you were at home. The path there is encrypted, with no third-party VPN provider.
Every connection shows whether it runs directly or through a relay, and if not directly, why and what helps. Both are end-to-end encrypted.