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September 3rd, 2007, 01:21 PM
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| Setting up Wan I'm looking to setup a WAN connection between my house and office. What's involved? Can I just use regular wireless routers?
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September 3rd, 2007, 01:44 PM
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| Are your house and office in the same building? If not, you need to set up VPN between the two computers...
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September 3rd, 2007, 02:41 PM
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| I thought that you could setup a WAN connection from anywhere "Just the opposite of a LAN, a WAN covers a wide geographical area, which can involve a large amount of computers." http://www.nitech.com/networking.php
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#4
September 3rd, 2007, 05:22 PM
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| WAN is 'wireless area network' and LAN is 'local area network' (wired network). Neither one connects your office to an offsite location. VPN does. WAN range is quite limited, probably 100 feet or less.
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September 3rd, 2007, 05:24 PM
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#6
September 4th, 2007, 02:46 AM
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WAN is used to connect a LAN network to the WORLD (internet). Therefore every router has a wan port which is hooked up to the modem, which connects you (through adsl or cable) to your isp. That makes you part of a very WIDE network ... So WAN is not used to connect different locations on the internet, use vpn for that. Good luck, Kees |
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#7
September 4th, 2007, 07:45 AM
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| Ok, thats fair. I have the Linksys WRT300N router. Without much research on your guys end, what's the chances of it being able to connect to a VPN by itself. we also have a FreeBSD firewall currently, so would you guys suggest for me to just use that?
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#8
September 4th, 2007, 09:16 AM
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| Quote:
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.c...214117,00.html
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