Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:24 pm
Well it should also be apparent that one could set up a VPN (Virtual private network) that would accomplish the requirements of a lan connection yet be wide enough to encompass the members of the team no matter there location on the earth. For those that do not know that a VPN is you can think of it as LAN that has been password protect and transverses through the internet to other members of the party.
The system could be hosted on a old box and would easily handle the same problem of backing up data and would allow for the interconnection of people on the password protect VPN to other peoples "shared spaces". One can easily turn of the ability for people to download there files at the switch of a flick making the whole process a lot more reassuring for the average user.
Hamachi is one such example and allows for real time chat and file sharing. Best of all its free. Also Hamachi provides the ability to play some games on private servers e.g wow.
The system could be hosted on a old box and would easily handle the same problem of backing up data and would allow for the interconnection of people on the password protect VPN to other peoples "shared spaces". One can easily turn of the ability for people to download there files at the switch of a flick making the whole process a lot more reassuring for the average user.
Hamachi is one such example and allows for real time chat and file sharing. Best of all its free. Also Hamachi provides the ability to play some games on private servers e.g wow.