Please help, networking problems

Sunny_Angel

Hi all,

Please could someone help me....:o
I have just got a job as a book-keeper from home for the same company that my mother works for(as a book-keeper).
We have just paid over €500 to upgrade the sage accounts package to a 2-user one.

Tonight i tried to do some work and it is painfully slow going.
My brother is my technical help and has set up the two pcs to network with each other via the internet (sorry, dont quite know how its works, this may be obvious to some or maybe not clear enough... )

He did warn me after he set it up that it would be slow but this just isnt workable.:( Is there any better way to do this networking lark without spending a fortune? He reckons that the problem is because we aren't in the same building but we cant be the only ones trying to do this....

Any help gratefully received :beer:
Thanks in adance
Sunny Angel

albertross_2

is it a broadband connection?

vpn? how is it connected?

Little_John

The only thing that can improve the speed are the 2 connections if your on a dial up and the office is on broadband then the bottleneck is your connection, you both need to be on BB to get anything decent.

I hope your brother did configure a VPN (virtual private network) between the pc and the office it is a secure way to access the office. unfortuanatly you are accessing what could be large amounts of data over the internet connection it isnt just the download speed that matters doing this the upload needs to be as high as possible.

You definatly dont need to be in the same building I have set vpn's up between london tube stations and they central office for contractors currently doing the stations up all over broadband connections.

another option could be remote control, remote access a pc in the office and work as if your in the office, mile easier to do.

Sunny_Angel

Thanks for your replies,

Yes we are both on a broadband connection.

VPN? no idea, never heard of one before,:o, will ask and get back to you....

Re; remote access, does that mean that we could both work on the programme at the same time without affecting the others work? How does it work and how is it set up?

albertross_2

There are a couple of ways to connect a to b, ideally using a VPN or SSH encrypted tunnel (which is just a secure connection across the internet).

1. just use the tunnel, and windows networking to map a drive from your PC to the work system.

2. use remote desktop, vnc, pcanywhere to remote control another PC in the workplace, so that you would see exactly what is on that screen. This can be a faster way to work, because the internet connection just needs to transmit what is on the screen to your PC, rather than transmit all the data from a to b.

If there is no encryption involved, then the workplace is exposed to the internet, which is not good.