Distant network

[Germain]

What is the best and cheapest way to communicate on a network using the internet, for 4 stores and a warehouse all in diiferent cities. I heard of something called VPM I guess, bur I'm not familiar with distant network.

Thanks
Germain

[Steve R Jones]

My company has offices in four different states. We mainly use Email or MSN Messenger...No real need to install any fancy software

[GroundZero3]

what exactly do you need them to communicate?

Sales information or like steve said just simple email?

[Germain]

Originally Posted by GroundZero3

what exactly do you need them to communicate?

Sales information or like steve said just simple email?

I want to install a point of sale (POS) in each store, which will transfer data and inventory to an accounting system installed at the warehouse.

[cysus]

I would suggest Hamachi, once installed it appears as a network adapter. Simply create a private Hamachi network, log in to that on all the systems you want on the network and it will act just as though you're physically connected (except for the internet speed limitation). It's the best VPN software I've come across, the only downside I can see is the created network is managed by Hamachi's server (if their server went down you wouldn't be able to reconnect to your network) rather than being completely independant.
http://www.hamachi.cc/
It has all the proper encryption, etc and it's a very simple UI, not that you really ever need to use it for anything other than logging in(I use it for it's chat function). Anyway, I've never had any problems or downtime with Hamachi, no complaints.

[Germain]

Thanks Cycus I'll check that.