"Randy Aldous" wrote in message
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[...] Since the cable modem bottle neck Peter
mentioned would be at the hotel end, it shouldn't affect you much
accessing the home PC from work.

Actually, unless I've recalled incorrectly, Jay has Mediacom's cable modem
at home, and Qwest DSL at the hotel. So the 128Kbps bottleneck is
significant.

Which is not to say it would prevent Remote Desktop from working. I have
use it with a dial-up connection, and while sluggish and somewhat limited in
terms of what's practical, it still works. Going through a cable modem
upload limit will be noticeable, but should not actually preclude the use of
Remote Desktop.

All that said, assuming Jay can get to his Mediacom news account from the
hotel, IMHO the best solution is to put his news data files on a USB drive
and take that back and forth. That would provide the best performance,
without any synchronization issues. The setup is non-trivial, but then so
would Remote Desktop.

As much as I dislike web interfaces to email and news, I have to admit they
have one good thing going for them: they are trivially easy to use (or at
least can and should be).

Pete