working from home

[Eatonpcat]

Don't forget that you may not always have to send everything back to the home office all the time. You could always save to your local machine and send in ZIP files. You may also be able to go into the office once a week and use the office bandwidth.

 

In fact I think (my personal opinion) that you should make a point of being in the office on a regular basis. The last thing that you want to happen is for your boss to forget what you look like. Completed work does not magically appear on the server, there is a human that is associated with that employee number. When the next round of layoffs happen - you do not want to be the easy one to chop.

 

Don't ask me how I know this.

 

Glen

 

 

Glen... I have to disagree with your statement, I believe good work (good workers) does not go unnoticed. I would not want to work for someone that didn't have the ability to figure out which one of his/her employees is producing. The cream always rises to the top!!

[Tankman]

Glen... I have to disagree with your statement, I believe good work (good workers) does not go unnoticed. I would not want to work for someone that didn't have the ability to figure out which one of his/her employees is producing. The cream always rises to the top!!

 

"The cream always rises to the top!!"

 

Haven't heard that phrase in a long time but, still true.

 

I've been working from home since '93 and, no problems. Early problems were almost totally related to ISP's which were just gearing up, learning how to stay connected.

 

I was 1st in my neighborhood to have cable, never went back.

Dialup of course, was a pain.

[Bill Tillman]

The transfer of files has nothing to do with AutoCAD or even your connection speed. It all has to do with your access rights to the files on the server(s) at your office. If your IT guys allow you to connect via FTP or VPN and give you access to the files you want then you're all set.

 

Dropped packets are one thing but remember TCP/IP sends a checksum with each packet and if it don't match it keeps sending the packet until it does. The transfer speed you get will depend on several issues but as long as you have rights to connect and rights to the files you can use one or more different protocols to transfer them.

 

Like the others have mentioned, working on files from home not only means you have to transmit the files to your home, it also means you have to transmit them back to the office server(s). Don't forget and you may wish to rename files you have worked on from home so as not to over-write anything at the office that other users access as well.

[Eatonpcat]

The transfer of files has nothing to do with AutoCAD or even your connection speed. It all has to do with your access rights to the files on the server(s) at your office. If your IT guys allow you to connect via FTP or VPN and give you access to the files you want then you're all set.

 

Dropped packets are one thing but remember TCP/IP sends a checksum with each packet and if it don't match it keeps sending the packet until it does. The transfer speed you get will depend on several issues but as long as you have rights to connect and rights to the files you can use one or more different protocols to transfer them.

 

Like the others have mentioned, working on files from home not only means you have to transmit the files to your home, it also means you have to transmit them back to the office server(s). Don't forget and you may wish to rename files you have worked on from home so as not to over-write anything at the office that other users access as well.

 

 

Have to disagree with renaming the file... That's a nono in my book!!

[BIGAL]

I have ran a VPN connection working directly off a remote server and honestly could not tell that I was not in the office working advantage was all saves go straight to server, but not sure how it chewed internet time.