Incoming Connection Types

As Windows Vista did before it, Windows 7 supports the following types of incoming (serverside) network connections:

• Incoming VPN connections Connections from a remote computer by tunneling over the Internet, using either a broadband Internet connection or a dial-up connection to an ISP
• Incoming dial-up connections Connections from a remote computer using an analog or ISDN modem

For more information on how to create and configure incoming connections, see the section titled "Configuring Incoming Connections" later in this tutorial.