Greg Twyford wrote: > Simon James wrote: >>> Simon James wrote: >>>> Have any list members deployed a load balancing router in their >>>> practice? >>> None I know of. Why have one? >>> >>>> What arrangements do practices have in place for the event that their >>>> DSL/Cable connection goes down? >>> It's called a fax machine, or maybe computer fax. [not Internet fax, of >>> course] >>> >>> Greg >> >> Not so easy to do Terminal Services via fax unfortunately. > > Simon, > > Exactly. Anyone who runs TS between two live practice sites deserve > everything they get. > > Non-MS implementations may be great within a site, but I'd never > recommend it between sites for security and reliability reasons. I've > heard of one group that does, but only one.
We run a 1-2 doctor practice at Kalbar using TS through a LAN to LAN VPN with Internode as ISP. Kalbar's phones are using the same tunnel to connect to the PABX at the main surgery. We've had one outage of 4 hours in the last 12 months (both internode and our redundant Bigpond ADSL connections went out simultaneously through some major fault in Telstra's equipment). On a couple of occasions there were brief outages (5 minutes) which were fixed by rebooting the routers. Its a very workable model but it does need someone with IT skills to be available at short notice when little things go wrong. Tony _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
