Adding Jeff's knowledge and experiences to our own, we find ourselves much more capable in our own attempts to provide remote access to or from those LANs and networks to which we have interest, and we do have interest in remotely accessing LANs. High on the list for many readers is the desire to access commercial Internet service providers. They do this whether using ISDN or traditional modems. Also high on the list for many of us is an interest in telecommuting. We are interested because we want, or need, to work from our homes.
Telecommuting is a very liberating and addictive thing.
Personally, I would not want to be without the ISDN line that connects my house to my workplace. Remotely accessing my corporate network allows me to get electronic mail, share files, and generally do nearly everything from home that I can do when I am at the office. This requires most of us to work in ad hoc teams with people of various disciplines that are at times unpredictable and often over widely scattered locations. Here again, remote LAN access becomes critical to productivity. It is easy to see that remote LAN access does more than provide basic connectivity to the office.