How do you share files remotely?

How can I access my home computer files from my laptop when I am away from home and on a DSL network? I am running OS X 4.3 and don't know much about this.

Choose New Finder Window from the Finder's File menu, drag it so that you can see both the window and those files at once, click on the newly created window, choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, and drag those files from one window to the other.
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