But, if you were to send a file from your computer to a host computer through a T1 line, in a utopian e nvironment, that file would take 6.44 times longer to be transmitted. The degree of slowness is in direct proportion to the speed at which you can commun icate to your RAS server. We currently use 28.8K modems to communicate to the Internet. Our best speed has never surpassed 24.6 kbps. Because, many times, telephone calls go through more than one telephone switch, called a hop.
Hops cause the data fl ow rate to decrease.
The remote user can be another LAN, giving access to all the users from a remote office or just a notebook computer at a customer site or in a hotel room. After dialing the appropriate telephone number to a modem bank at the office or the Internet, you provide your log-in name and password. As a member of the LAN, you can access the resources of the LAN, based upon the security and permissions applicable to your log-in name. It is no longer necessary to have a full time computer department to benefit from this technology. Access to the Accounting System.