Tony Eviston wrote:
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,
Kalbar is out of town. I agree that in the bush things are done in these
sorts of ways, because there are few workable alternatives.
Thanks for sharing that.
Sometimes my urban focus forgets about you guys and your needs.
Greg
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