>-- Original Message -- >From: Horst Herb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] B4H >Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:00:57 +1000 >Reply-To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> > > >On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Andrew wrote: >> Now you have to add Internet down -4 hours. >> Practices have come to rely on a connection. > >Get a load balancing/failover capable router (eg Linksys RV82) and two >independent Internet accesses (eg ADSL + Satellite or ADSL + 3G). One of >the >two plans can be cheap and of the minimum speed you require to do what you > >have to do, because you only use it if your main plan goes temporarily belly > >up. > >We used to have ADSL + 2-way satellite, then we scrapped the 2-way satellite > >because of cost and poor erformance, then regretted it when the ADSL outed > >for nearly a full day (exchange in town flooded, lots of equipment shorted > >out).
Our 2-way satellite recently went out due to heavy fog, thick cloud, storms etc and finally power cuts. You didn't miss much. The satellite constantly drops in that type of weather. fee >After finding out that 3G does not depend on equipment in the local exchange > >(strange enough) now we have redundant connections again, what a relief! > >Horst >_______________________________________________ >Gpcg_talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
