Remote Desktop General Question - New Bee

I have a large laptop in my home office. It is running XP Media
Editions verson 2002, SP2. I want to buy a ultra portable laptop for
on the road, with a Verizon air card, and access my home laptop
remotely. My home laptop is on bellsouth DSL, using a 2wire homeportal
1700hw. I have two home laptops on the same DSL connection and
homeportal. Is it possible to access my large home laptop from the
road with my ultra portable using a Verison card? Any ideas on the
response time?

I have read several help topics and Internet tutorials on on Remote
Desktop Connection but have not gotten far. Can someone point me to an
article, some tips, something to get me started? My thought was to get
the my two laptops (same DSL connection and home portal) working with
RDC first, then buy the Verision card and get RDC to work, and then
buy the ultra portal. I do not want to spend money on a card and
laptop if RDC will not work. Any input on my plan.

Thanks

In general you need to forward/open TCP Port 3389 through the 2Wire
modem/router device to the private LAN IP of the home laptop you want to
remotely access/control. See this page for help with that. Ignore references
to UDP Port 3389.

http://www.portforward.com/english/r...te_Desktop.htm

You would call the public IP of the 2Wire modem/router, ie. the IP assigned
by your ISP. See this page for general configuration help, troubleshooting,
etc.

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.or...eshooting.html

If you want to access the second home laptop you would need to open a second
port on the 2Wire device.

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.or...ple_PC_RD.html

In all cases use *STRONG* passwords...

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/you...d/checker.mspx

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"MaryZZZ" <bgrossnick@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:0bc910da-4be1-45cf-9d2c-8e55d4727792@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>I have a large laptop in my home office. It is running XP Media
> Editions verson 2002, SP2. I want to buy a ultra portable laptop for
> on the road, with a Verizon air card, and access my home laptop
> remotely. My home laptop is on bellsouth DSL, using a 2wire homeportal
> 1700hw. I have two home laptops on the same DSL connection and
> homeportal. Is it possible to access my large home laptop from the
> road with my ultra portable using a Verison card? Any ideas on the
> response time?
>
> I have read several help topics and Internet tutorials on on Remote
> Desktop Connection but have not gotten far. Can someone point me to an
> article, some tips, something to get me started? My thought was to get
> the my two laptops (same DSL connection and home portal) working with
> RDC first, then buy the Verision card and get RDC to work, and then
> buy the ultra portal. I do not want to spend money on a card and
> laptop if RDC will not work. Any input on my plan.
>
> Thanks

Does anyone know where you can find best practices for remote connections?
The reason I ask is I have over 20 users that work remotely. They use a RDP
session to connect to our server through a VPN. The problem is I have
several differnet types of connections. I have some that use wireless to
their ISP, DSL, Cable, and satelite. The wireless and satelite sem to have
a lot issues staying connected.

Thanks,
Mark