Week Seven: Remote Connectivity and Wireless Networking


The ideal of remote connectivity isn’t anything new. Remote connection has been around for many years. The purpose for remote connection is to give users the ability to remotely connect and access their organization network for work related purpose. Remote connection is a great technique that network and system administrators utilized to their advantage because it give them the ability to remotely troubleshoot problem, update system software, and many more. There are two way remote connection can be establish and executed – the first and more advance one involve utilizing the Command-Line (script), and the second one is executing Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) which was developed by Microsoft.

RDP which was developed by Microsoft, “provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection.” To successfully execute remote connection using RDP, both computers must have RDP server software employ (installed) before a remote connection can be establish. User’s doesn’t need to have that much of an experience to implement, execute, and establish a remote connection using RDP. Unlike RDP, using Command-Line to remotely establish a connection required knowledge and programming (scripting) experience. RDP was developed to give users the ability to remotely connect to other computers but also utilized for other networking purposes. RDP is designed to handle a wide variety of network topologies, including ISDN and POTS. RDP is also intended to work with many LAN standards, such as IPX and NetBIOS. RDP only works using TCP/IP in its current form (MyHostinglive, n, d).

Wireless Networking is the process in which Radio Frequency (RF) is used for connecting to other nodes onto network wirelessly without the use of wire connectors. Wireless connection is becoming very popular everywhere (business, homes, and telecommunication) involving computer networking. Wireless network is essential to our everyday ways of live and has dramatically change computer networking for the better. There are different types of wireless networking available and they are:

·         Local Area network (LAN) – a computer network that operate local at a single place, is use for connecting variety of networking devices.

·         Person Area Network (PAN) – this type of wireless network can be seen as a Small Office/ Home Office (SOHO) network.  

·         Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) – the name said it all, this type of wireless network cab be implemented to expend across a city or a geographical area, collage or business center. Unlike LAN, MAN has the ability to cover as far as a miles of area.

·         Wide Area Network (WAN) – the larger of all network, and its name said it all. This type of wireless network can be establish to cover a larger geographical area (entire city, state, or even a country)

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