Commercial use - Connection time out
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Hi Team,
I was connected to another PC to trouble shoot and was disconnected after 2 mins or so, I tried again and was blocked then, happened a few more times.
I only use TeamViewer on occasion have not used it for weeks - what could be the reason?
I could as well not log a ticket with the team viewer team as it kicked me out during the login process and asked for my password again.
thanks,
Robert
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Hi everyone,
yesterday my account was restricted as the pattern recognized my usage as proffesional to others. Well, this simply cannot be true.
I have three PCs, two from my parents and all in all, in a whole last year, only maybe that I have accessed up to 5 other PCs from friends and family. How can this be considered as professional usage?
Please advise.
Thank you!
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hello
When I try to connect to the PC at home from outside with TeamViewer, it automatically shuts down after 5 minutes saying that commercial use is suspicious.
It is very embarrassing to see this message even though I was using it for simple personal use, not for commercial use.
Please keep the free use available.
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Hello
I am a personal home user.
Due to my travel schedules, I cannot continue to use newer ips from different countries to access my bank and financial websites. I need to use a "not always changing" wifi/IP to access them daily.
So I am using TV to connect from my nomadic laptop to my home laptop.
But TV says that I am using this for professional usage.
Please help and unblock me.
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Hi all
Same here ... since today I get the message "commercial use detected" and I am a personal user that only connect to my father's and a friend's computer to solve occasional problems.
It seems is impossible to open a ticket, so please help me with this issue.
Best regards
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This morning while connecting to a friend to help him solve an issue, I got this message. This already happened 5 or 6 years ago. This should be a problem in the way TeamViewer is detected the commercial usage. I am using the remote control feature only 1 or 2 times a month, mainly to support friends with their computers.
It should be easy to check my connections and get confirmation of my usage.
Can someone check this and correct my blocked profile ?
Thank you
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I got same today im use to check time to time my home nas and servers. Whey banned account for personal use of my own computers
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Finally found a link where you can request to reset this ==>
I apply with the French link ==>
You should be able to find the same in English or any other language.
So far the request is submitted but no answer yet.
Hope this will help you.
While posting, I was not authorised to post the links, so I tried to add them as text file attached.
So txt file, does not work, I put it as pdf.
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I have been using Teamviewer's free licensing agreement for a long time. Recently, I've been getting notifications about them suspecting that I am using the product professionally, which is not the case since the only computers I have under my TV account belong to my relatives, like my son, brother, grandson, mother-in-law and even my ex-wife, and believe I do NOT get paid at all. All of these people rely on me to keep their computers updated in as much as the Windows O/S is concerned are they are terrified of screwing up or having to do anything with their respective computers. Let me reiterate, I only do it because they are family, yet I do not even get an invitation for lunch or any kind of remuneration. How should I go about letting the Teamviewer folks that I am NOT using the product as they suspect?
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I have the same problem
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I have used the free version of Teamviewer since 2011. I am an amateur astronomer and use it mainly to control the PC in my observatory at the bottom of the garden.
I also occasionally use it to help friends and family if they get computer problems.
Today I was trying to help a friend clear out space on her laptop and was stopped, with a "We detected you may be using the free version professionally" message.
I assure you, I have never received anything other than a verbal 'thank you' for my help!
I have found the Reset Management page but am at a loss what to enter in the ID number placeholder other than my username, georgefc or the ID number [removed per Community Guidelines]. I have checked emails from you and have never been sent any other numbers.
I attached a screengrab below.
Please can you advise?
Thank you,
George Carey
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So I posted my reset request this morning, so far no answer.
Any idea how long it can take to be processed ?
Thank you.
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Hi All,
I'm using the app to remote into my own computer to monitor and maintain it. I usually have it connected throughout my workday so I can test things from my home machine as well. Lately I been getting this message saying my session time is going to expire because its says it appears that I'm using it to support devices commercially? Then sometimes is says I have exceeded my limit of sessions? All I'm doing is monitoring my own personal device. Anyway to stop this from happening? I decided to use Team Viewer instead of opening port 3389 to my home network.
Thanks
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I filled in 2 ID numbers, but the pdf only shows 1. Going back to the entry page just repeats that I have successfully sent the form. There does not seem to be a way to add IDs.
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Good afternoon,
Recently (today) my Teamviewer Free license is saying that it thinks I'm a commercial user (I'm not, at least not with this account, my employer was a previous subscriber). I use my personal account to connect to my own machines as well as family to help support them when I can't go to their locations and they need help. I am not using Teamviewer for business purposes. How can my account be reset?
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I went to use TV for the first time in months only to be advised that I must buy a license as I am being treated as a business user. I help two people (brother and sister) who are family friends and who are totally dependent on their computers to keep in touch. I have never charged for this, and have only ever used TV to help these two people. What is going on?
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I am using TV free, so I can check on personal stuff while I am at work. I don't use it for work or business, I use it to look at my home security system, personal email and banking that I can't do on my office system. For the last two days I have been getting an error saying that I am using TV for a business. How? Why? I have received no other notices. 90% of the time I connect between the same two systems. Occasionally I help friends troubleshoot problems they have at home. I am not running a business.
Why am I being punished for following the rules?
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I am using TV free, so I can check on personal stuff while I am at work. I don't use it for work or business, I use it to look at my home security system, personal email and banking that I can't do on my office system. For the last two days I have been getting an error saying that I am using TV for a business. How? Why? I have received no other notices. 90% of the time I connect between the same two systems. Occasionally I help friends troubleshoot problems they have at home. I am not running a business.
Why am I being punished for following the rules?
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Can someone tell me how to tell teamviewer that my account is not commercial? I keep being disconnected after 5 minutes, each time I get into my mother's phone. I receive the alert saying "your account seems for commercial use". It is not. I just want to help my family, I live abroad. But I have my mother's phone, my aunt's phone, my father's phone, my father's computer, my cousin. How can I prevent this from happening? I can't help them if I keep being disconnected every 5 minutes. And after retrying, the system simply blocks me. I'm a personal user!
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Hello all
I am PhD student at the University of Edinburgh and I use TeamViewer to log into my university computer(s).
I mostly just log into the one at my desk and queue up data processing (it's much more powerful than the one I have at home), but lately have been able to use a different one that's even more powerful. I have also used my university laptop two or three times (to use the webcam as someone has been pinching stuff from our lab) but won't be using it much going forward.
I guess I left one or more connections (I only use one at a time) open a few too many times(?) because TeamViewer is now saying I'm supporting others professionally and my access has been restricted to 5-minute windows.
How do I get this flag reset?
Thanks for your help!
Anjali
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I think this may be a recurrence of "Suspected Commercial Use" I encountered on my account back in 2019. I can't find the Question I had that resolved it, probably deleted by now.
I'm a retired (since 2008) IT guy and an Army Veteran. I help out older folks and Vets with issues on their PCs, with retirement and VA forms, lost/forgotten passwords (happens a lot with the older folks) and PC repairs. I don't charge them money. These folks are pretty much non technical, but need technology in this day and age (to complete forms, banking, eMail, access services etc.). For me its better than sitting around watching TV and fun to help get them going, when issues arise and TeamViewer and TeamViewerQS is often a critical part of that. More folks get my name all the time, so it keeps me pretty busy.
It was told it was resolved (ticket # [Removed as Community Guidelines] -- based on an email from TeamViewer Service on Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 11:21 AM) Which said
Dear TeamViewer User,
Thank you for getting in touch with us. We are happy to inform you that your TeamViewer ID has been reset to “free”. After reviewing your request, we decided that your use case can be qualified as “personal”.
Unfortunately, the eMail can't be replied to, so I'm not sure how to proceed.
Not sure what happened to my account. Maybe the allow free status expired on my account. Or, maybe its because I replaced my PC a few months ago. I'm not sure how the ticket was opened and I got the permission back then, hard for us older folks to remember all the details, but I do recall this forum helping me out back then.
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I just recently in the last week stated getting the 5-min timeout (commerical use detected). I don't use it for commerical purposes. I've reset my account (now for the 3rd time), but I continue to get timed out. Is there something else that needs to be done? If the time-out is here for good, i hate to do it because i love TeamViewer, i may have to switch to something else. Please help if you can. Your remote software is the best.
Thanks!
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Having similar issues to everyone else. Unfortunately, form is not working for me. I fill out, sign, and try to click the generate and upload PDF button, but system does nothing.
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Hi,
My personal account has been flagged for business use and it isn't. I connect remotley to my home lab and have used team viewer for years to do so. Can this restriction be lifted please?
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My parents, who are over 80 years old, live in Spain and I live in Latin America. I have always used the free version of Team Viewer to solve their problems, can't connecting Skype, etc but today I have had problems because Team Viewer cuts me every 5 minutes because it says that the use I make is commercial, is it an error in the new update or how can I solve it?
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Been using TV for many years but it now seems to be very poor.
I have been locked out/restricted from my free account as a suspected commercial user - I support two elderly people a few times a year - that's all.
I have followed Teamviewer's support suggestion to go to the reset page but entering the required info doesn't work - clicking "Generate PDF and upload" does nothing so I am stuck.
Does anyone know how to resolve this as it is very frustrating!
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I just use it in my lab to control the different data computers, is an educational user not a commercial. Can you cancel this forbidden for my account?
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Plz help.
A few days ago Team viewer began kicking up a message that it thinks im using for commercial purposes and im not....how to fix?
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Just an FYI to team viewer. You have about 30 min before i dump team viewer for **Third Party Product**. After years of personal use and I'm now being interrupted by you bogus excuse. If you think for a millisecond id purchase this when what i see is your greedy attempt to force a purchase, THINK AGAIN....in fact i will purchase the full **Third Party Product**......to spite you. You've been warned. Either fix immediately or i will have my entire gaming community i assist daily all switch to **Third Party Product** and dump your product and then we will trash team viewer in our many circles.
Clocks ticking.....balls in your court.
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I recently started getting a pop up when connecting to my own machines (Downstairs to an upstairs machine). The notification says there might be a licensing problem with your connection partner. Connecting to this device requires a valid TeamViewer license for you or your connection partner.
What is causing this? I have five PCs that I connect between, all in my house.
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