Setting up Wan

supanatral

supanatral

Registered
I'm looking to setup a WAN connection between my house and office. What's involved? Can I just use regular wireless routers?
 
Are your house and office in the same building? If not, you need to set up VPN between the two computers...
 
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.
 
Natobasso said:
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.
Click to expand...

As stated before W = WIDE, Wireless (that's call WiFi).

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
 
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?
 
When I dial into the office through VPN, the internet doesn't work anymore and all I get is the local network within my house. I can't even ping "fileserver" (name of the computer) i have to type 192.168.1.30 to get to it.

I get a new IP address for the shop (192.168.1.111) but still can't ping anything on the network at the shop. any ideas?

If I take this same computer to college (using a 172.x.x.x address), and connect to the VPN, it works fine. at hCould it be that I'm using the same subnet ome as I am at work?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top