routers vs WAN vs T1 vs dialup

[se at panix.com (Scott Ehrlich)]

Hello to all:

Dare I mention the possibility of frame relay or ISDN?  Not necessarily as
fast, but still other options I don't think are as distance-dependant as
DSL.

Scott

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:

> > Just to throw this in there, have you thought about business grade DSL?
> > It's not as reliable as T1, but it's more reliable than dial up, and it's
> > likely to be cheaper than T1.  I'd also recommend going with the separate
> > router, BTW, unless you're *really* familliar with Linux, in which case
> > learning Cisco doesn't make much sense.  I doubt that you will get much in
> > the way of customer support from the ISP if you don't go with hardware
> > they know, and WAN problems quickly disolve into finger pointing among
> > providers.
>
> I forgot to mention in my original post that our office is out in the
> boonies.  No DSL or cable available.
>
> And, given the savings Net2000 is promising on long distance charges, our
> phone bill goes down by $600 a month.
>
> But it sounds so far to me that there's not much more for me to do, since
> I've already set a firewall/mail host for my static IP address on the
> demand dialup PPP link.  It would seem that all that'll be different is
> the media.  Software changes for my DNS server (used only by my internal
> computers), mail server, etc., should involve only name changes (different
> IP address, different domain name).
>
> Thanks!
>
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