Re: [cobalt-users] NO SDSL

["Franklin S. Werren" <fswerren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First off did you get a firm commitment in writing about your SDSL ???

2nd Atually how far away are you from your real local exchange ???

3rd Did you check with other providers ????
DSL or cable ???
Some providers will give you a static IP via ADSL or cable
if SDSL is not available.(and even if it is)

I wonder if you can lease a dark fiber... electronics are not that
pricy....depending on distance to an ISP or your old office.

Personally I use ADSL and a static IP address and even have
a domain on it. But I have a real good ISP

Franklin S. Werren
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----- Original Message -----
From: "George Simpson" <gasjr4wd@xxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] NO SDSL


> Howdy folks!
>
> I have a huge networking problem...and need any help I can get. Sorta not
> cobalt related, but help is help. We use a Qube 2 for a firewall and also
> have a raq 2 for a few little hosting sites...non profit...also use a
> Appleshare for file server (ASIP).
>
> Our new office/production site lease has been signed, and NOW our SDSL
> provider changes their story and tells us that we are not with in the
limit
> for SDSL. T1's are way over priced for what we need to do. All I need to
do
> is give internet access, host our little site, and be able to transfer
files
> to and from clients and vendors. We are a small printing/desktop pub shop,
> leaning more toward desktop pub for other large publishers. Our SDSL 256
> line in the other office is fine for that...and at $150/month we can't
knock
> it. We are told that the only way to do it at the new office is: lease a
> fract T1 ($220), that comes with a min of 8 phone lines ($21 each=$168),
and
> then the SDSL ($150) and run the SDSL over the T1. (Total of $538/month)
The
> powers that be and I both agree this is crazy. I thought if you had a T1,
> that WAS your internet link. Not to mention we do not need 8 phone lines!
>
> Is there anyway we can get around this? I was thinking some kind of direct
> link to our other site and just use that dsl line? Do you think if we
> somehow dial a analog modem in to our ASIP server in the other office, use
> the server there, it will be fast enough? If not ASIP, would New
Sun/Cobalt
> product better fit this? I haven't went that route yet, haven't needed to,
> but I have been in digest mode in this list anticipating it. Any other
> flavor of Linux box?? Something??? I remember reading some time ago about
> people who have a...like a private dsl, between offices that run on extra
> phone lines that used to be used for direct lines to alarm companies. I
just
> can't remember where now. It seemed neat, but was just one of those little
> conversation things in the office. They pay $20/month for the line.
>
> For now it is OK to keep the old office with the DSL, but in the perfect
> world everything would move to the new office.
>
> If it maters, the offices are about 15 miles apart, and I am told the new
> office is 90,000 (wow) feet from the point of the switch. (or what ever
it's
> called)
>
> Am I just screwed?
>
> TIA!
>
>
> --
> Thank You,
> George
>
>
>
> "Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
> Lord Byron
>
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