Jeremy, Sounds awesome! The Sonicwall we own is rated for home and small business and is beginning to show its age and is bottle necking our internet at different time of the day when the firewall CPU maxes out at 100%. Our need for more internet increases yearly as more of the educational process moves to the internet. We are finally moving toward providing remote access to teachers and are looking at ways to extend the campus for students. Add to that ICN internet outages and the whole mess begins to hamper the educational process. Thanks, Tony Richardson, Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District trichard...@humboldt.k12.ia.us
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From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us on behalf of Pearson, Jeremy
Sent: Fri 4/10/2009 8:16 AM
To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us
Subject: RE: [info-tech] Secondary Internet connection
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
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[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)
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