Comments on: Justify Whether Or Not your Network Design Will Support Dial-up Or VPN Remote Access? http://remotecomputersupport.com/tech-talk/network-support/justify-whether-or-not-your-network-design-will-support-dial-up-or-vpn-remote-access/ Real-Time Support - Any-Time Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:11:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Elomis http://remotecomputersupport.com/tech-talk/network-support/justify-whether-or-not-your-network-design-will-support-dial-up-or-vpn-remote-access/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Elomis Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:23:39 +0000 http://remotecomputersupport.com/justify-whether-or-not-your-network-design-will-support-dial-up-or-vpn-remote-access/#comment-12 Perhaps you need to assess whether or not you want to consider dropping this class, if you call networking 'crap' it may be the case that you are not cut out for it. VPN and dial-up remote access are WAN technologies, you will likely design a network's remote access as being VPN based if your remote users or remote offices have decent internet connections and the office has a decent internet connection. This will also be required if there are high bandwidth requirements. If you don't have decent internet connections or public network connections to form virtual private circuits over you may consider using dial-up remote connectivity over the public telephone network. Obviously bandwidth will be limited to 56.6kbps though. In short; VPN Advantages: --------------------------- Secure High speed VPN Disadvantages ----------------------------- Potentially expensive Requires internet in place Dial Up Advantages --------------------------- Cheap Typically only requires phone line Dial Up Disadvantages ------------------------------ Slow Technically limited if analogue phone lines not available Perhaps you need to assess whether or not you want to consider dropping this class, if you call networking 'crap' it may be the case that you are not cut out for it.

VPN and dial-up remote access are WAN technologies, you will likely design a network's remote access as being VPN based if your remote users or remote offices have decent internet connections and the office has a decent internet connection. This will also be required if there are high bandwidth requirements. If you don't have decent internet connections or public network connections to form virtual private circuits over you may consider using dial-up remote connectivity over the public telephone network. Obviously bandwidth will be limited to 56.6kbps though.

In short;

VPN Advantages:
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Secure
High speed

VPN Disadvantages
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Potentially expensive
Requires internet in place

Dial Up Advantages
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Cheap
Typically only requires phone line

Dial Up Disadvantages
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Slow
Technically limited if analogue phone lines not available

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