Can I control a computer through a phone line instead of the internet?

[jastew1011]

I have used a program called procontrol in the past which allows me to adjust sensor set points and get readings over a phone modem. How can I adapt this to labview. I am currently using logmein to control the computer, but the cost for internet is more than phone.

[Hueter]

The easier way to control a remote device through a phone line is to use the internet. With a simple phone line modem (OR DSL Modem) you can communicate remotely. There are many ways to do this kind of communication without having to pay for an ISP, but all of them involve inventing your own remote protocol, and unless your time is worthless, I would opt for a cheap DSL connection.

[nathand]

How much control do you need?  If you simply want to transfer a file every once in a while it shouldn't be too difficult, but if you want to see a front panel and set values on it then it would be a lot of work.  For file transfer, there's an example of using a modem to communicate with a Fieldpoint unit that you could adapt to run on a computer.

[Hueter]

Take a look at this forum, where one of the users wrote their own serial file transfer client.