Commercial use - Connection time out
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Good luck with that.
MANY of us have fillled out that form (some of us REPEATEDLY) with no results. Teamviewer is a joke
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how to ask them change it for us ?
I really need to help my uncle with the computer stuff0 -
I had the same thing happen with my old account and never received a response and it's been a few years. Submitted multiple requests even. So I created a new account and have been using it fine, now I'm getting this again. I use it solely for personal use. Hopefully one of us will hear back some day, but my hopes aren't very high. May have to look for a different solution sadly.0
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I sent in my non-commercial use request form and received an email saying the request was granted and all my PCs would be reset so they would not display the message again. I have waited over a week and I am still getting the commercial use message on my PCs. I sent the name of my group, my email address, and a list of the PCs TeamViewer IDs when I sent in my signed request form. My group name is 'KQRR4449'
What else do I need to do to get rid of this message? I really do want to use TeamViewer again if possible.
Sincerely,
Kenneth West
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Fingers crossed. If only the people who bleep and remove pricing and links to 3rd party products were as dedicated to fixing this issue.
True dat.It's interesting how the company is diligent to not allow their User community to talk about alternatives. Are they afraid to compete?
Seems to me they have opened pandora's box. [removed per Community Guidelines]
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Oh my. After reading this:
https://www.teamviewer.com/en/credentials/free-for-personal-use/
I think the ethics of this company are junk and worthless.
The company has a severe problem with honesty and customer empathy.
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I got the same Garbage about using teamviewer commercially and I never have I just play a game with it on 2 of my computers not in the same room. The Joke's Over. It is just an excuse for them to get rid of free users even if they are legit. I started using **Third Party Product** and I must admit works just as good without being cut off all the time and This has been a FREE session popping up I do not miss. Thanks TEAMVIEWER but I am moving on just like you wanted anyway
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Thanks
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I just tried to use TeamViewer to help a friend with a simple task. When I tried to log on to his computer, TeamViewer told me it had detected use in a commercial environment (which was not the case), and that my session would be restricted to five minutes. I only needed to get on for a minute or two, to clear cache and cookies from Chrome, so I logged on, and within about 20 seconds, TeamViewer logged me out. I tried to reconnect, but it told me I was locked out for 15 minutes.
I've never had this happen before. I was using one of the Version 14 iterations (I don't know which one, as I immediately checked for updates, and updated to version 14.5.1691), and I haven't tried it since.
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Hi! What I have to do if I use non-commercial version to priv activity, but I need Teamviewer so often, that administrator thinks, that it is commercial activity. So what could I do now?
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@duderonomy So it seems. It used to be they censored mentions of specific alternatives. Now I seen twice that they censor just the mention that alternatives exist.
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@jamiem The main advantage of Teamviewer over several other alternatives is the ability to find and connect to PCs at remote locations, even behind firewalls. That's because all the PCs running TV are logged into their server somewhere and the server can make the connection between remote PCs. I'm not sure if all the traffic goes through the server or if they have a way to make the connection then hand off to P2P.
If your PCs are all within the same LAN I would never use TV for that. In that case you don't need the feature that can find the other PCs because they are already on your LAN. Well, not to say never, I do have all my personal PCs on my LAN registered to my TV account. This way I can access them when I travel (on vacation, not for work; I'm retired) or if something goes wrong with the other method(s).
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I hear you... the entire reason I use TV in the first place is to help out friends and family. I used to use mstsc (windows remote desktop) pretty much exclusively. However, over the last few decades it's been far easier to just use TV. That said, if they really want to push us power users into using ultra!vnc/anyd!esk/log!mein/zoom/splash!top/parallels/supremo/chrome remote/connectwise/tinyvnc/bom!gar/lite manager/nomachine (you're welcome TV moderators, enjoy the annoyance that you cause us!), they're welcome to. It's no skin off of my but t (is that going to be moderated?) to use a competitor. I think the thing that really annoys me, is that they're pushing the people who will actually bring them business into this circus. It feels like they don't realize that the people who suggest these solutions actually use them for private usage. Do I tell my company to not use slack and zoom because they suc k? Nope! Do I tell the companies I've previously told to use TV to abandon ship? Yup! This policy is pretty harmful for no real reason
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Is a student of a public university using TeamViewer to connect to his lab computer considered commercial?
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Mattias,
Your usage satisfies the company's stated claim that free use is allowed. However some internal shift is occuring within TeamViewer corporation which indicates free usage may be more restricted.
I used google to find alternatives to teamviewer with non-commercial free usage RTU.
Cheers!
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It is impressive how a company can spend more resources alienating paying customers and loyal free users, manually processing huge numbers of "can you unlock my computer" requests, refunding real money from recent buyers who are being affected by these poorly implemented "cheater" algorithms; instead of focusing on writing better software.
I'd like to know more about the leadership of this company. Are the names of the leadership posted in public?
Honestly I would be ashamed to show my name if I was Director or VP.
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@Tomer2 wrote:hi
i'm using TeamViewer more then 5 years
never had a problem
in the last couple month the session end's after 1 min
I'm a privet person and I'm using TeamViewer for waching my kids when thry are using the internet.
there is any way to make alonger session?
Tomer
I am also being cut off after 1 min.
I will be removing TeamViewer from my life.
Teamviewer disrespect their customers in 2019, like no company has done before. This is special event.
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@duderonomy Yes, you can go to their website and see who the top management people are.
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@duderonomy this is certainly not the first company to do this. **Third Party Product** used to be the program for free users. Then they decided to get rid of free users, so everyone switched to Teamviewer. At least **Third Party Product** was honest about it when the kicked out free users. They announced to the world and gave a date when their program would no longer work without a paid license. Teamviewer is taking a different approach to getting rid of their free users.
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I was told connecting to/from a church, work, and university network was 'commercial'. So if you do it will likely get flagged. And people are saying yeah but the TOS says something different, and in theory I should be able to connect from work to help my mom at her home, but that seems to be only in principle.
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Thank you.
I wonder which knuckle-head thought this was a good idea.
I jsut scrubbed my mac and windows of anything related to teamviewer today.
Seems like a brand destroying move with individuals.
I'd hope the enterprise customer is not being adversely affected by the schaat code that was introduced recently.
I was shocked what I read on truust pilot about the company's practices.
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@duderonomy wrote:I was shocked what I read on truust pilot about the company's practices.
Wow! More than 80% of the reviews are negative with only 1 star. Way to go TeamViewer!!!
You must be trying to compete with Monsanto for the most hated company on the planet.0 -
I am having the same issue. I admit I have over a dozen computers in my home for my family and I remote into my parents' computers too, but it's 100% personal use yet I was/am accused of commercial use. How do I fix this??
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Only one solution that I see.
Uninstall TV and use a different program
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I'm a retired IT tech who still has a lot of influence in my field. I used to think TeamViewer was the perfect solution for supporting my family and accessing my personal computers when I'm away from home. So I spoke highly of it and encouraged others to try it out for their free personal use and to consider a license for their business.
But since TeamViewer have pulled this stunt of repeatedly accusing and falsely flagging personal users as commercial users, effectively banning them from using their product... well I'm just glad there are alternatives available. Needless to say I don't recommend TeamViewer to ANYONE anymore.
And I'll never trust anything TeamViewer says again. Their website is still full of statements about how they encourage and support personal use for free.
ALL LIES.
It's making me distrustful of other companies that also claim "free for personal use". It's corporations like TeamViewer that give consumers good reason to doubt anything that a company claims.
My only regret is that having personal users quit using TeamViewer is probably EXACTLY what they hoped to accomplish with all these false accusations... so in a way they are getting what they wanted. @TeamViewer managment team - you **bleep**.
Kse Dyna --1 -
A workaround is to open the file transfer window and transfer a large file at a low speed while you do your supoort. Cancel the file once you are done. Team viewer will bot cancel your session while a file is mid transfer. I actuqlly do this with paying clients now.0
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how do you control speed or do a slow speed in a transfer?
I don't see any option for speed in the file transfer menu
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I just meant like a ridiculously large file on a slow usb stick or ant other way you can slow down transfers0
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@musicreporter : there is no such thing, it can be slow even in local networks.
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