Accessing AREV from remote location (AREV Specific)
At 10 JAN 2001 01:40:41PM Mike Mathis wrote:
I would like to have a client of ours connect to my server from a remote location via the internet. I would prefer to have them access my server directly through a router or something like that. I want to avoid using a dedicated work station with PC Anywhere. Does anyone out there have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards,
Mike Mathis
At 10 JAN 2001 04:45PM WinWin/Revelation Support wrote:
56k lines will not be fast enough. If both sides have high speed connections you can use RAS or VPN to map a drive. Even then, I would copy the application to the client, have them attach only the data tables across the web. You really need to run a networking product too. PCAnywhere or its big brother Citrix will provide safer and more usable solutions.
Hope this helps.
Bob Carten
At 12 JAN 2001 10:29AM E DREWS wrote:
Mike,
You could try something along the lines of T1 or DSL connection into the network (WAN or something similar), but I think the cost might be a bit prohibitive. Using Arev thru a VPN or RAS connection is, from my testing, prohibitively slow due to the amount of data that is passed back and forth. After thinking about your situation, I came up with a potential solution I had not yet tried. Connect to the network via VPN. From there connect to a machine thru the network using PC Anywhere in network host/remote mode.
IMO, you may have eliminated one of your more cost effective solutions by eliminating PC Anywhere (or something similar) as an option. The initial and/or annual cost of T1, DSL, or Citrix likely will far exceed the cost of a (few) low-end machine(s) (eMachine comes to mind) and a few copies of PC Anywhere.
At any rate, my two cents.
Regards,
Eric Drews
Drews Enterprises
At 12 JAN 2001 08:06PM Michael Slack wrote:
Our company uses Citrix Metaframe (I believe, I know it's Citrix) to allow the HeadQuarters access our remote sites and visa versa. I don't have anything to do with setting the that stuff up but from what I've heard and been told, each location uses a Citrix Server of some kind. It comes in real handy when I need to help figure out a users problem from long distance or get or send a file right now. Due to the extreem distance our remote sites are located from the headquarters (the headquarters in the States and the remote sites in Antarctica), the response time can be a bit slow at times. I think that is a factor of distance, traffic on the Web and the remote site's network speed. All things considered it has been a real help to supporting our users.
Michael Slack
At 18 JAN 2001 10:28AM Sandy Brewer wrote:
We have remote users coming in three different ways. 1 - direct dial in to a Cubix. 2 - direct across our network (NJ to MI). 3 - across the network via TCP/IP and a Cubix (2 different networks). Benchmark testing seems to place 2 and 3 as within 90 - 95% of local response time. 1 is slow - 56K modems.
Sandy Brewer
GMAC Global Relocation Services
Detroit