**** newbies and their stupid questions!....

Sorry for the slightly aggressive topic title but I thought (hoped) it might get my questions noticed.
I'm the newbie....I've been using ARD for a while to simply connect my main computer in my home office to my older G4 elsewhere in my house over my hard wired LAN. It works great.
Now I would like to take it a step further. I would like to be able to control my home computer from work and my work computer from home over the internet. I have looked at the manual but cannot find any info pertaining specifically to this.
Can anyone out there suggest a source for info regarding this subject?
My computer at home is on a Comcast (cable) broadband network and my computer at work is on a AT&T (DSL) broadband network and is connected via a Airport Base Station. Neither accounts have dedicated IP addresses, do I need at least one of the accounts to have a dedicated IP address for this to work?
Many thanks for any help that can be offered.
Sean Beresford

The subject of connecting ARD via the Internet has been covered here many times already (search the forum for "Internet"), but take a look at this web page:
http://www.starkpr.com/ard.htm
It should help, though you may have to refer to your router's documentation for specifics on opening and forward ports in that particular unit.

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