Host/Terminal Connections

Host/Terminal Connections is the simplest and cheapest type of connection to the Internet. Here, the connectivity to the Internet is in the mode where computer behaves as if it is terminal to an Internet host or server. When you use PC dial-up (also called a terminal account), your computer runs a terminal emulation program to communication with the service provider's host computer and you ask the host computer to go out on to the Internet to do what you want to be done. Terminal will be remote to the host. Therefore requiring a dial-up modem to transfer information from your computer to the host and back. VSNL does provide this kind of connection.

Following connections may be well suited when you:
(i) do not want to manage server by yourself.
(ii) want to connect from different locations using remote login facility e.g. telnet etc.
(iii) Have a limited budget like home usage or small office usage.
(iv) Do not require constant connectivity means you need it some times.

In this connection only the utilities offered by host are available to the user. Most of these connections do not provide any graphical interface. This machne cannot exploit the multitasking features of the computer as this type of connection can perform only one type of communication at a time. Normally these shell accounts are on UNIX operating system.