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I need help understanding our network setup. The company database will be
split and the 2 users that commonly use the server(contains the BE) are hard
wired to the server. Four other laptops have a wireless VPN connection. I'm
told that's like a LAN over a LAN. Talking to our computer tech, he said
there wouldn't be a problem with data transmission-it's just very slow. But
I just read Albert Kallal's article "Using a wan with ms-access? How fast,
how far?" In it he says, "Using the internet to build a wan is usually
referred to as a VPN." He then goes on in detail to explain how bad a wan
connection can be. I'm not that familiar with all the network jargon to know
if I'm on the right path. Are there any problems with data corruption with
this setup? Can I just set up operations so that the two hard-wired users
are the only ones to update tables and the laptops are to view reports only?
TIA
split and the 2 users that commonly use the server(contains the BE) are hard
wired to the server. Four other laptops have a wireless VPN connection. I'm
told that's like a LAN over a LAN. Talking to our computer tech, he said
there wouldn't be a problem with data transmission-it's just very slow. But
I just read Albert Kallal's article "Using a wan with ms-access? How fast,
how far?" In it he says, "Using the internet to build a wan is usually
referred to as a VPN." He then goes on in detail to explain how bad a wan
connection can be. I'm not that familiar with all the network jargon to know
if I'm on the right path. Are there any problems with data corruption with
this setup? Can I just set up operations so that the two hard-wired users
are the only ones to update tables and the laptops are to view reports only?
TIA