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Accessing Your Computer Remotely at a Fast Speed

I’ve been using some form of remote computing since 1989. First starting with PCAnywhere and then moving to GoToMyPC. PCAnywhere is a software based solution and GoToMyPC is a web based subscription solution. When PCAnywhere got bought out by Symantec, they started upgrading so frequently that I decided to go with GoToMyPC. A flate rate per year and no software to install or worry about whether you had the current version, plus it could be accessed from anywhere that had an internet connection.

Now, you can set up a virtual private network (VPN) without the use of either program (more about that later).

But in contacting our cable company to get a static IP address, they told me that I could have various speeds of accessing the internet, from a standard cable modem speed all the way up to the speed of a dedicated T1 line. Also, there were differences in speed in the ‘upload’ rates.

I was not familiar with what the upload speed rates were, but was told by my tech guy that it affected how fast I could access the office computers over the internet (e.g. remote computing). For a fairly small amount, I tripled the speed that we can access the office computers remotely.

The net effect is that I can be at home and working on my office machine and where there used to be a noticeable lag time, the remote access now is nearly at the same speed of sitting at the keyboard.

I had no idea and had never heard of increasing the upload time before. Check with your local internet provider and see what you can do to increase your upload time for faster remote access.

Full post as published by South Carolina Trial Law Blog on November 17, 2007 (boomark / email).