If you have line of sight, you can use WaveLAN type of transmissions. 2Mb,
point to point, no spectrum licensing fees. Otherwise you'll have to rent
some fiber or copper from someone, or even lay your own.
Talk to Telstra. See what they have to say. It won't cost a few million a
month, but will be in the order of a few thousand a month per office. It
may be cheaper to pay couriers to take CDRs around.
How often do you need to transfer the files? Can you push them out nightly
via cron jobs? Should you be investigating the need to transfer documents
of this size and if there are decent client/server alternatives?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 6 October 2000 12:00 pm
> Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] DSL to DSL connections
>
>
> We want to get all of our stores hooked up together, so we
> can do major
> filesharing (50mb documents) and also internet conectivity etc.
>
> Seems ADSL isn't the go.. and HDSL is going to be too costly..
>
> .. What other means are there of getting rather high speed connections
> between offices(one of them been about 60km away) (but on
> average, 5km from
> each other) without spending a few million bucks a month for
> connections,
> and probably without going via a ISP, satalite?
>
> Regards, Alan Lee
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Ferlito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Alan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Sydney Linux Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 10:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] DSL to DSL connections
>
>
> > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:28:35AM +1000, Alan Lee wrote:
> > > Hey there;
> > >
> > > Is it posiable to have 2 offices hooked up via ADSL, and
> do VPN'ing and
> things like that.. what kinda things are required to do it?
> Withing 2km?
> etc? Anyone know anything about this and how it can be done?
> > >
> > > Regards, Alan Lee
> > >
> >
> > ADSL is just an internet connection ie it's no different to
> a modem. So
> > both premises can connect to the ISP and VPN over the internet. You
> > can't however connect one ADSL modem to another ADSL modem directly.
> >
> > What you want is HDSL which is basically to expensive
> modems ($1k-$3k)
> > depending on the speed you want connected by 1-2 pairs of copper. ie
> > copper directly between the two buildings no exchange
> equipment in the
> > middle, a couple of crone blocks at the most. here is around a 3-6k
> > limit here that includes the distance from building A to
> the exchange
> > and thenh back to building B. You can achive speeds anywhere from
> > 128kbits to 2Mbits depending on distance line quality and
> modem expense.
> >
> > The telstra product is PAPL, which they only gaurantee for voice. or
> > CityDSL, you hae to be in the city and only wholesalers, ie
> ISP's can
> > buy it so you nhaver to convince one to do it for you. The
> beauty of it
> > is a PAPL connection only costs about $200/month so you can
> effectively
> > get 2M of bandwidth between 2 locations for next to nothing.
> >
> > --
> > John
> >
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