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| The LAN turns 30, but will it reach 40?
"The next step is to give each machine a direct Internet connection, with appropriate security technology, skipping the LAN, he predicted."
The "appropriate security technology" is a NAT router. It's a one time cost and you don't have to have multiple ISPs/carriers or their monthly fees. What is described is if you want to share files with somebody in a remote location (as is already happening). You shouldn't have to send your bits on a slow internet link for 1000s of miles round trip in order to put files on a computer that is a few feet away. |
