[EHaskins]

Most newer home routers have built in support for DynDNS. If possible you should use that. I know for sure DD-WRT supports this feature. You'll find it under Setup>DDNS.

TightVNC probably is being blocked by a firewall. Check the local firewall on your machine.

No matter what remote software you use you'll need to need to configure your router to forward the appropriate ports to your machine, can can find this in DD-WRT under Applications and gaming>Port forwarding.


Sanddrag mentioned using a router based VPN. DD-WRT supports this under some versions, but it is not very reliable.


The reason your machine with a static IP can't access the internet is probably because you didn't configure your "default gateway" and/or DNS servers.