Re: Remote connection router problems ?

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More than likely you will not be able to get the public IP without you or someone being at the remote PC. If you can then from the PC you want to remotely connect to go to the http://www.whatismyip.com site to get the public IP.

With that said many ISP provide dynamic IP addresses to residential accounts. So even knowing the public IP at one instance will not help if the PC is rebooted and the public IP changes. A way around that is to use a free dynamic name service like No-IP.com or DynDNS that maps a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) to the ISP assigned dynamic IP. That way when or if the public IP changes the change is mapped to the FQDN. You always call home using the FQDN.

http://www.no-ip.com
http://www.dyndns.com

Many routers have built-in support for those or you can download and install a small program onto the home PC. The program runs in the background and on a time scheduled basis contacts the server which then maps the current public IP to the FQDN.

Remember you also need to make sure TCP Port 3389 is forwarded through any router the home PC is behind.

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"Justin Harding" <jharding13@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g20ngr$561$3@xxxxxxxxxxx
I'am trying to establish a remote connection between my home computer, which is wireless, and my secondary home computer, at another location, but I have seemed to have run into some difficulty... The computer I'am trying to connect to seems to be behind a Wireless Router. it sends out a wireless signal, and is also a 192.168.0.0 IP address... How do I find the actual IP address for that system, since I cannot connect to that ID address which is what the router gave the system... when I have my home computer there on the wireless network (It's a laptop I'm using to connect with) it works fine, but as soon as my laptop is out of range and on a different wireless network I cannot connect to this system anymore...


Can anyone help ?

Thanks...


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