I already use this with Splashtop. I have a beast computer connected to a 100Mbps network offsite and connect to it via my budget laptop. Really neat, but not

I already use this with Splashtop. I have a beast computer connected to a 100Mbps network offsite and connect to it via my budget laptop. Really neat, but not suitable for games due to the slight but noticable delay. However, it kicks ass to have 2 computers at the same time, if one starts lagging I just go to the other one. Similarly, I can download heavy files or encode video on one of them while working on the other. I also can do all downloading on the offsite computer to keep my slower home network in top shape. The good thing about Splashtop though is that it doesn't work like a video stream. Instead it only updates the parts of the screen that has changed. Meaning I can use Splashtop for chatting/surfing with almost no download bandwidth required locally. It also works great for HD streaming though.