Re: [cobalt-users] NO SDSL

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

GS> Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 12:39:03 -0400
GS> From: George Simpson


GS> We are told that the only way to do it at the new office
GS> is: lease a fract T1 ($220), that comes with a min of 8 phone
GS> lines ($21 each=$168), and then the SDSL ($150) and run the
GS> SDSL over the T1. (Total of $538/month) The powers that be
GS> and I both agree this is crazy. I thought if you had a T1,
GS> that WAS your internet link. Not to mention we do not need 8
GS> phone lines!

T1 and Internet are separate issues.  A T1 is a point-to-point
link between you and _something_.  In this case, it sounds like
you got a quote from someone like NuVox who would run a T1 into
your office, hook it up to a channel bank, split off some voice
channels, and use the rest for IP.

A T1 could run to a FR switch, another router, a phone switch,
et cetera.  The line and the use are not tightly coupled.


GS> Is there anyway we can get around this? I was thinking some
GS> kind of direct link to our other site and just use that dsl

You might have some luck with wireless.


GS> line? Do you think if we somehow dial a analog modem in to
GS> our ASIP server in the other office, use the server there, it
GS> will be fast enough? If not ASIP, would New Sun/Cobalt

What would run where?  It's hard to answer the "fast enough"
question without knowing what's where, and what the requirements
are.


GS> product better fit this? I haven't went that route yet,
GS> haven't needed to, but I have been in digest mode in this
GS> list anticipating it. Any other flavor of Linux box??
GS> Something??? I remember reading some time ago about people

Not sure what Cobalt flavor has to do with moving your traffic.


GS> who have a...like a private dsl, between offices that run on
GS> extra phone lines that used to be used for direct lines to
GS> alarm companies. I just can't remember where now. It seemed
GS> neat, but was just one of those little conversation things in
GS> the office. They pay $20/month for the line.

This sometimes works.  However, with offices 15 miles apart,
you're out of luck.  DSL just will not reach that far... even if
you could score an alarm circuit with no load coils.  (That's a
challenge in some areas!)


GS> For now it is OK to keep the old office with the DSL, but in
GS> the perfect world everything would move to the new office.

Okay.


GS> If it maters, the offices are about 15 miles apart, and I am
GS> told the new office is 90,000 (wow) feet from the point of
GS> the switch. (or what ever it's called)