RemoteConnection-DREAM

[Bart Pietercil]

On 3-apr-07, at 12:12, Thorsten Hohage wrote:

> Hi Bart,
>
> On 2007-04-03, at 11:41, Bart Pietercil wrote:
>> I don't really understand.
> perhaps no one understand me ;-), perhaps you need to have your  
> exprience with german T-Com and furthermore "special" german  
> customers, ...

Maybe worth falling back on ISDN ?
Maybe UMTS, GPRS ?( It IS quite a thrill to give your customer  
support while on a terras high in the Alpes :-))
Why not use a simple telephone line ? You will feel several years  
younger :-)

I've been in the land of over-stretched DSL connections a few years  
back with my own office ( + 6 KM of the last connection point). Back  
then we were able to resolve some issues by degrading connection  
speed (less speed gives higher reliability), so maybe there can be  
done something....


>
>> What's keeping you from setting up the server at the client side  
>> from accepting a VPN connection.
>> You can use a router that emails you when his WAN IP changes if  
>> the client can't do this himself,
> Oh no, not several dozen emails a day for nothing
>
>> or let the client connect to a special page on your website where  
>> his WAN IP is reported to him (there must be a thousand ways to do  
>> this)
> yes, that's an option, there are several websites that do report  
> the website. We tried this in the past, but I really don't know why  
> and I know what I do, so *really* strange, I was not able to  
> connect to the client using the shown IP. My clients location is so  
> far away from the last "connection-point" that for years there was  
> no DSL available at all, now they've got one a year ago, but not  
> "official supported". I didn't
> know what the provider has done to enable it and I don't know WHY  
> shown IPs don't work.
>
> I'm afraid THIS is the reason why the provider declined to give a  
> fixed IP to this connection?!?!?!? And of course the provider don't  
> want to dicuss about technical reasons.
>
>
>> Once you have the assigned IP, you can connect to his network with  
>> (if you are on a mac) Internet Connect through VPN.
> In normal cases, yes.
>
>> Next step is launch any ARD,Remote Desktop or VPN and take control  
>> of the machine on the other side.
> Remote Control is far more, then I need, I "simply" want to connect  
> to the database. One simple SQL-statement says more then 10 Minutes  
> of telephone call ;-) - of course I CAN do this through i. e.  
> Remote Desktop but it's not "fun" nor usable if a screen redraw is  
> about 5 Minutes, of course in "good times" it was average speed and  
> everything is ok, but you may know Murphy's law ...
>

So a router with a fallback on POTS or ISDN or GSM/GPRS/UMTS could  
resolve the issues, since sending and getting text (sql) will still  
be workable ?


hth

Bart


>
>> Probably I am missing some info why you are not doing is this  
>> way ? No router ?
> Router yes, Router with VPN NO - further more I'm often away from  
> my office and I need to connect from another clients office to  
> another client, so ones client VPN may not be compatible with the  
> other. Again being at my desk may be another story, but  ...  
> Murphy's law.
>
>
> regards
>
> Thorsten Hohage
> --
> objectmanufactur.com - Hamburg,Germany
>
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