On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.orgwrote:
hi,
a friend wants to connect to his office from his factory and other locations. In the old days I used to fit a dialup modem and he would dial in to his office machine - how is it done now? Do dialup modems still exist?
Yes, they still do, but probably with the exception of command line ssh or maybe lynx/links, i dont think there are any applications left that will really be usable on a modem link :P Still, i see so many brand new laptop models that still have a modem port, almost makes me want to cry.....
In todays world, you use the internet, with static/on-demand vpn's, dynamic DNS hostnames and/or ssh tunnels to get secure access into a location.
Rajeev
P.S. - While ssh may be usable, the latency will probably kill you, esp when you are using the backspace key..... when do you stop :D
-- regards Kenneth Gonsalves