Lesson 3: Connecting to Remote Networks
Public wireless networks allow users to connect to the Internet. Although that connection is sufficient to allow users to catch up on the news, check a flight, or read a weather forecast, business users typically need access to their company’s or organization’s intranet resources. To allow your users to connect to internal servers so that they can exchange documents, synchronize files, and read email, you need to configure remote access.
Remote access typically takes one of two forms: dial-up connections or VPNs. Dial-up connections allow users to connect from anywhere with a phone line. However, dial-up connections offer poor performance, and maintaining dial-up servers can be costly. VPNs require both the ...
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