Jan Afsat's VSAT might be the most ideal for your situation right now. I know the initial costs are not all that pocket friendly but for what you want to do, u may want to start off with them.
Wire On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 09:53 +0300, Rob Gipman wrote: > Sorry Jan, but I would not recommend running lotus notes across a vpn that > runs on a link slower than 64/128kb. You will be waiting for every sync to > happen unless anyone else has better experience. > > The VPN and I presume with encryption will already eat a substantial portion > of your available bandwidth. > > Gip > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Jan Oscar Holbo Rasmussen > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:57 AM > To: Linux Users Group Uganda > Subject: Re: [LUG] GPRS/3G modems experiences outside of Kampala > > > I stay 20 km outside the City and I use the MTN Mobile. It manages to > > offer me a service though not to the standards that I know it is > > capable of. > I am trying to do preliminary investigations on how to provide internet > to our regional offices. Does anybody know of a cheap, reliable internet > connection? Some of he areas I am looking for coverage in is Mbale, > Jinja, Kigumba (Masindi). > > The link does not have to be high speed (we only have a 128Kbit > synchronous connection at our national office). Reliability and cost > effective are the main factors. > > I would do a VPN tunnel for the internal traffic (Lotus Notes) and let > the internet traffic (web, smtp, pop, etc) go directly (to not load our > main line). Would it be feasible to put "parent" squid proxies in these > regional offices to a "child" squid proxy at our national office as they > might get better connection out there? > > Jan
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