From: martin.bodenstedt@landtag-bw.de   
      
   Mickee wrote:   
      
   > I am in the US and will be moving to India soon. I plan to connect to my   
   > office network using VPN from there. I have a 1.28 Mbps SDSL connection in   
   > the office. I will have a cable internet connection in India. We have Win2K   
   > server in the office.   
      
   Good enough...   
      
   >   
   > Currently, my laptop at home (5 miles from my office in the US) has Win2K   
   > and I am able to connect to my office network using VPN.   
   >   
      
   Good.   
      
   > Q1. I guess, on the internet, actual physical distance does not matter in   
   > terms of configuration - is that right? I should be able to vpn to my office   
   > network from anywhere in the world as long as I have connectivity to the   
   > internet - Is that right?   
      
   Not the length of the cables matter but the number of routers between   
   the two ends of your vpn connection.   
      
   The packet turn-around times (ping) will go up but that does not   
   influence sigificantly large data transfers. The longer turn-around   
   times will only be noticable in real time sessions (like telnet) or   
   online games...   
      
      
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   Martin Bodenstedt   
      
   Landtag von Baden-Württemberg (www.landtag-bw.de)   
      
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