Connecting Two Computers

[Don_2121]

hi can anyone tell me how i can connect two computers (about a few miles away) so that i can share files folders etc, i can get both computers on broadband if that is needed.
thanx v much

[MSIuser]

I have never heard of anyone being able to network computers miles apart. At least with a conventional ETHERNET network! Broadband is probably the only way to go. What you do from there I don't know because I haven't got the luxury of broadband. What OS are the PC's running though?

[Computer Hobbyist]

MSluser.

Actually you hear about people networking miles apart all the time. The term for what DON_2121 wants to do is called WAN -- Wide Area Network. You are part of the worlds largest WAN. It is called the internet.

There are lots of ways to connect two computers over a distance of miles, but the cheapest is the internet itself. I would suggest you put both on broadband and connect the two computers via the web. There are other ways that were completely explored in the old days of the BBS
and fidonet. Some folks still use the dial in BBS as a way to provide information to customers. Until recently legal information providers, like Westlaw, used such dial up BBS services. The software is still out there. But why bother when the internet provides all of the services for little cost.

I don't know what DON wants to do with the network, but if one of the computers is Linux based, he can, with a little work but for very liltte cost, set it up as an FTP server, a web server (Apache), an email server, a secure shell server and a dial-in shell server.

CH

[MSIuser]

I was thinking along the lines of home network sorts over long distance. I wasn't really talking about the internet when i said that i haven't heard of many people networking miles apart that way. Like i said i thought broadband would be the way to go. I just don't know how it would be setup.