Thanks Jeremy. >>> "Pearson, Jeremy" <jpear...@fort-dodge.k12.ia.us> 4/10/2009 5:34 PM >>> Not sure if this was directed at me, but we don't get a break for our second line. But, we were to the point where we were going to need 10 MB of Internet, so we went 5 and 5. I believe we are paying about $900 or month or so before ERate on our Frontier Ethernet Connection, and whatever the ICN and AEA costs are for our ICN Ethernet Connection. We are paying more than if we just had a 10 MB ICN connection, but we have never (watch me eat these words now) been without Internet since we have had the Sonicwall 3060 and two Internet Connections. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Jeremy Pearson Supervisor of Information Technology Fort Dodge Community School District 104 South 17th Street Fort Dodge, Iowa 50501 http://www.fort-dodge.k12.ia.us (515)574-5676 voice (515)574-5324 fax _____
From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us on behalf of Brad Kruse Sent: Fri 4/10/2009 4:35 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection One question... How much do you pay for the second connection that you rarely use? Does IATelecom give you a break? Manson Northwest Webster-Home of the Cougars! Brad Kruse ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ Tech. Coord. `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) 1601 15th St. (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' Manson, IA 50563 _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' 712-469-3919 (li),' ((!.-' Fax 712-469-3131 > > > "Pearson, Jeremy" < jpear...@fort-dodge.k12.ia.us > 4/10/2009 8:16 AM > > > Everyone- We are running a Sonicwall 3060 with enhanced firmware, and have had a secondary Internet connection for 3 or 4 years now. We currently have a 5MB Ethernet connection from the ICN, as well as a 5MB Ethernet connection from our local phone company. Other than Lance's note about have to restart the Sonicwall to get back to full operating strength on both connections, it is awesome. You never even know when one link goes down, as the Sonicwall just routes everything out the other link. We will never go back to having one single connection. The only other thing to think about, in our configuration, and end user can really only burst into a 5MB connection, since they are 2 different connections, but depending on the situation, that works better. We originally were doing this on our Fortigate, but at that time it would not allow for load balancing over the links. Scott and I have had those discussions, so I don't know if that problem has been rectified or not. That was the reason we moved to a Sonicwall 3060. If anyone need any more information, ask away. Otherwise, happy Easter everyone!!! Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: info-tech-owner @ aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Karl Hehr Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:59 AM To: Info-Tech Subject: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection With this mornings outage it got me thinking. OUr ICN connection is usually quite sound, but do any districts have a secondary connection to the internet? Karl H. Hehr Technology/Curriculum Director South Hamilton CSD www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 515.827.5418 (W) 515.209.9767 (C) 515.827.5368 (F) Luddite by Degrees 1) Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2) Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3) Anything invented after you're 35 is again the natural order of things --- Douglas Adams --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail --------------------------------------------------------- --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail ---------------------------------------------------------