Recent content by wrxtacy2003

Holy S***.... embarrassingly bad math. :( I'll definitely give updates when I figure it out. DK

Yea and that's every customer's machine. We ship around 100 machines every year.

I think your PM might be the solution. THANKS! I'll test out the VPN tonight and see if I can get that to work first.

I didn't look into your PM yet. I will later today. I'm looking into VNC because all of the framework for connecting to pc's over the internet is already there. Since the source code is open, I was going to see if i could figure out "routing" the ethernet card to my pc over the internet...if...

No, its another card on the pc (or another port on the same card...whatever). Yea, I just realized I'm going to need plant IT people to set up the VPN....and majority of our customers don't have IT....some of them can barely use a computer haha.

The pc's have windows XP. The ethernet card is built into the pc. There is no wireless card built into the pc's. The custumer's either run an ethernet cable to the spare port or they use a wireless usb stick.

it is a good option, but still 500K a year Minimum. I'd rather explore other options first and if I truly can't figure it out I'll have to do something else. It would be cheaper to fly me out to the plant for a day to do the debugging. I'd have to fly out to 100 different customers a year to...

i was thinking about using VNC since it's open source and coding the routing of the machines ethernet port to my pc, but I wouldn't know where to begin with that type of progamming. I'm sure I could figure it out but if there is something already made (like vpn) to do the same job, then there's...

Well the machine will be in a customers plant. The machine will have wifi which will be using the plant's internet. We already use logmein with the machines from our shop to the customer's shop. But with the new controller the software isn't free so it's not worthwhile to pay for over 100...

That requires me to have the software on every machines pc. That's over 100,000k a year in licenses that won't get used often enough to justify it.

Hi, I have a device (motion controller) attached to a computer(machine's pc) by an ethernet cable. On a separate computer (my laptop) I have the software that I can connect to and program the controller with. What i'd like to do is VPN to the machine's computer from my laptop and connect to...