Scroll to the top of the 'Category:' section and select the 'Session' category.You should see the information you entered appear in the larger text box above. After you have entered the 'Source port' and the 'Destination' information, click the 'Add' button located on the right side of the window.Replace ' ' with the name or IP of your computer.

Select the 'Tunnels' section of the SSH category.

Expand the 'SSH' section in the Connection category.Scroll down to the 'Connection' category and expand it by clicking the '+' to the left.

Locate the 'Category:' section on the left side of the window.

This will save your session for future use.

Once you have entered the server and session name, click the 'Save' button on the right side of the PuTTY window.

Enter a description, in this example we chose 'Work Computer Remote Desktop' but you can pick whatever makes sense to you. This will be the saved name of the connection.

Open PuTTY. If you do not have PuTTY installed you can download it from our software page, here. Enter a name in the box under Saved Sessions, and click the Save button on the right.This an alternative to using the VPN for remotely accessing your work computer. If you want to save those settings for later, use the options under Load, save or delete a stored session. For boards with built in USB it doesn't matter so much but for ESP8266 and other board with a separate chip, the speed required by the board is 115200 bits per second. This called the baud rate, which is the speed in bits per second that data is sent over the serial connection.

In the box under Serial line, enter the serial port you found that your board is using.

Under Connection type: choose the button next to Serial.

However, the 64-bit version will work on most PCs. If you run into issues, you can try downloading the 32-bit version instead. Download the file and install the program on your machine. It is most likely that you'll need the 64-bit version. You'll want to download the Windows installer file. The first thing to do is download the latest version of PuTTY. If you're using Windows, you'll need to download a terminal program.

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