Remote+access

Remote access
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Remote acces refers to the ability to connect to a computer remotely in order to either operate the computer or access it's contents. There are several softwares available such as Teamviewer, which is an example of a software that uses remote access in order to access another user's computer in order to both access files and operate the remote machine. The advantages of remote access is that a user can do tasks that they can't normally do on their machine from anywhere in the world so it is not geographically restricting to any user. Another example of this would be Apples' "Remote" App, which allows the user to control and edit their iTunes playlists from the device (iPod, iPhone etc)

The type of software usually used for remote access is refered to as a DOS or BBS software, where a connection is established between two users through a VPN (Virtual Private Network). Using a VPN a user can establish a direct data link usually over the internet where interaction between two machines can occur back and forth. However some of the disadvantages associated with remote access for example is the fact that the strenght of the data link established between two machines is dependent on the internet speed or speed of data transfer. If the internet speed is slow remote access can be slow and lag which would not allow a user to perform tasks as efficeiently or operate software that requires a lot of coordination.

However remote access is usually safe as for the connection to be established between two machines, both computers must enter in the corresponding code of both computers, as well as for commercial remote access software, there must be a user on both ends of the machine to initiate remote access.