When you work from home, you have accomplished one important freedom - freedom from other people constantly telling you what to do, as in many a workspace situation.
However, if you never worked for yourself before, you may not realize at first that working from home brings with it other challenges.
One of them is, yes, boredom.
You may be a stay at home mom, and boredom is the last thing imaginable, but even so, sometimes you just want to break away from sitting at your computer at home, and being trapped in the home or in the home office.
You want to take your office on the road sometimes.
It could be the boredom, and it could be that you need to make a presentation at a client's office.
Or it could be you are traveling around the country or around the world.
So what are the two essential technologies that will allow you to roam and yet work from home? They are a home network storage and a solid VPN router or virtual private network router.
Let's see how they work together to allow you to roam around yet continue to run your business successfully from home.
Home network storage secures your information The first technology that will allow you freedom to roam is home office network storage.
Why home office network storage? Well you could probably keep all your information, important data, video files, audio files, and documents on your laptop as you roam around, so why bother with home network storage? But just how safe is taking all your data with you on a laptop? Are you ready to allow all your important data to fall into the hands of strangers just because you left your laptop unattended for a minute and a thief took advantage of it? I hope your data, and your laptop, is not worth that little.
By having all your information stored securely on your home office network storage, not only will you have fast access to it from any computer at home, any time, but you will also be able to access it seamlessly and securely from the road, be it at the local Starbucks, or from anywhere else in the world.
And how will you access your home network storage from anywhere, and secure? Well that is where a VPN router comes into play.
VPN router to access your home network securely VPN routers, or Virtual Private Network routers, extend your home network into the internet realm.
They simply replace your regular home network router, take over its existing role, and add the virtual extension of your home network.
When you have access to the internet, all you need to do is contact your VPN router.
The router then creates a secure "tunnel" over the public internet.
That way, even though you are extending your home network outwards into the internet, you are the only person who can see and get access to the information on your home network.
Not only is your information stored securely but also your access to it from anywhere is secure and seamless.
Your work from home need not be taken so literally anymore.