Re: Need a good WAN suggestion

NevilleJones — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:58:31 GMT

As already mentioned by others (and youself) there are sync'ing tools out there that will do the job of keeping a local copy of the data up to date.

Couple of other things to consider though.

1st, get an ISP that cares about their customers!!! Whilst ultimately you are at the mercy of BT some ISPs seem to be better at beating BT over the head with a big stick than others. Personally I would suggest Andrews & Arnold (www.aa.nu).

Secondly, consider putting in a second ADSL line into the main office. Personally I would avoid the really cheap ones as you may have problems with blocked traffic but for £20/month you could have a backup ADSL line for when the main line goes down. You can get clever with hardware to fallback onto the standby line but I am guessing this would be too expensive. I would setup DNS with some spare hostnames to point at the second line's static IP address - e.g. vpn2.clientcompany.com then if the main line goes down just tell the remote clients to use a different DUN connection.

Just my 2p worth

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Re: Need a good WAN suggestion