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MovedGoalPosts · 01-04-2009, 17:44

Broadband connections have two speeds. The advertised one, in your case 20meg, is the speed the connection can receive data. There is also an upload which is the speed the connection can send data. The upload is normally a fraction of the download, unless you have a very expensive business grade setup.

So both your home network will be limited in the rate it can send data to you remotely. Moreover, this will be compounded by the rate you are trying to send data to your home network from your remote connection.

If you are trying to do any significant volume of moving files, be it by torrent or other means, it would perform horribly.

Remote connections to a home network are possible, but keep it simple. i.e. you want to check that something is running, you want to start or recogure something that is running on the home PC, you want to remotely access a single file that you forgot to put on your laptop before you left.

A VPN (Virtual Private Network), allows you to make this form of temporary remote connection. You would need the VPN server software running at home and VPN client software on your remote accessing computer.

01-04-2009, 17:44	#7
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: Networking on a WAN network Broadband connections have two speeds. The advertised one, in your case 20meg, is the speed the connection can receive data. There is also an upload which is the speed the connection can send data. The upload is normally a fraction of the download, unless you have a very expensive business grade setup. So both your home network will be limited in the rate it can send data to you remotely. Moreover, this will be compounded by the rate you are trying to send data to your home network from your remote connection. If you are trying to do any significant volume of moving files, be it by torrent or other means, it would perform horribly. Remote connections to a home network are possible, but keep it simple. i.e. you want to check that something is running, you want to start or recogure something that is running on the home PC, you want to remotely access a single file that you forgot to put on your laptop before you left. A VPN (Virtual Private Network), allows you to make this form of temporary remote connection. You would need the VPN server software running at home and VPN client software on your remote accessing computer.