>Case 2. -home visits by nurse with laptop to do care plans, using NextG >mobile card and VPN-ing back into clinical app. Without fixed IP this would >be unreliable. Without their ADSL2 connection @ 16mb/1mb it would be slow. >Case 3 -remote clinic linked by IPSec vpn back to main clinic via B4H >connection, again ADSL2. The remote clinic then gets to use the same >clinical DB, not possible with a 512/128 connection. >Case 4 -nearly all my clients use vpn's from home to check the odd path >result that is nagging away in their mind after dinner. Not possible without >a decent connection which B4H has introduced them to. > > I do all this very happily with a crappy 256/64 ADSL connection at the surgery (with fixed IP, and using Best Practice), even if I use a dial-up connection/VPN from outside.
Obviously a faster ADSL plan will improve speeds especially for remote printing of scripts etc, but my slower Internet connection is still very workable. As you can see, I didn't avail myself of the B4H offer - it just didn't seem necessary to me. John Mac _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
