Connect to device on another computer's ethernet port

[gsaldivar]

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.

One workaround might be to install a cheap DSL line just to carry the ethernet connection from your laptop to the motion controller. In this scenario, a remote access effort would use two connections at once - one to control the remote computer, and a second to carry the motion controller data.

 

[Engineer]

One workaround might be to install a cheap DSL line just to carry the ethernet connection from your laptop to the motion controller. In this scenario, a remote access effort would use two connections at once - one to control the remote computer, and a second to carry the motion controller data.

That would be silly to use a few times a year on hundreds of machines scattered around the country. If this were one particular machine in one customer's building, maybe but to be able to do this to ANY machine at any location is not affordable or even practical, not to mention the possible impact of having an outside line coming into their facility and getting the plant/company IT people involved.