When do we use the VPN?

[Maxima]

I was just wondering what we need the university VPN for? One of the first tasks for us from last week was to set it up, but I don’t really understand when we should be using it, and what it is used for.

[Simon]

The VPN makes your personal computer become part of the University’s internal network. This enables access to certain parts of the University computing infrastructure that cannot be accessed from the outside world.

In general, you do not need to be connected to the VPN all the time. Just use it when instructed.

For Speech Processing, you’ll need the VPN at the start of the first assignment, when there will be some files to copy from the University filesystem to the Virtual Machine.

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