Hi, You need to have a simple plan to start with: - how many users - what apps - what costs you are willing to bear (initial and monthly)
Then you can use that to have some clear requirements: - total bandwidth - locations - Quality of Service (link quality, bandwidth management, monitoring) Then you approach the ISP / telco and see what they give you. As Reinier wrote, you could go for a leased line which has better performance assurance and control with higher cost. Or you could go for Internet VPN - cheaper to tunnel your link across the ISP. But you have little guarantee and control. Kind regards, Bernard 2010/1/7 Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]>: > > talk to your ISP, see what they can do for you. Ask them for a pure IP > connection, no p2p or vpn or whatever complex stuff that they can screw up and > charge you through the nose for. State that most of your traffic will not > leave > the country. Ask them if they can provide that traffic cheaper than the > international traffic you will generate. Make them specify which speeds you > will > get where. > If you can not find 1 ISP that can deliver, have 2. They should be > interconnecting. Keep insisting on cheaper local traffic rates with both. > > Then create your own VPN (if that is what you need) > > You can also install skype on each client, and host your email in Kampala on a > server, which is a bit more messy, but way less complex than anything you will > do over a VPN. (and thus, cheaper). > > just my 2cts. > > > -- > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 782 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > > Do you have a businessplan? Make your idea work: www.startyourbusiness.ug > > > > On Thursday 07 January 2010 18:10:26 Ahmed Senyonjo wrote: >> Dear Friends, >> >> >> >> I need your help am trying to set up a converged network to exchange Data, >> Voice and Video to link different offices which are separated by at least >> 200kms. >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> Ahmed. >> >> >> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 02:00:07 -0800 >> From: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LUG] Setting up an FTP Server >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> Suse comes with yast(2) - this should help you with a UI to do the >> Installation. Just fire-up yast and search for ftp, you will see the vftp >> option, check and accept the base installation will be pretty much done. >> >> Then you can move to the tweaking (Norman's email) >> >> Regards, >> Douglas Onyango +256(0712)981329 >> Life is the educators practical joke in which you spend the first half >> learning, and the second half learning that everything you learned in the >> first was wrong. >> >> --- On Tue, 1/5/10, Kiggundu Mukasa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> From: Kiggundu Mukasa <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [LUG] Setting up an FTP Server >> To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 12:50 PM >> >> >> VSFTP (very secure ftp) >> can get rpm here >> http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/su >> se/i586/vsftpd-2.0.5-24.i586.rpm >> >> >> That is the 10.2 version bug should work >> >> >> Kiggs >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:04 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I hope the new year is well, i want to set up an FTP server, i already have >> a Linux box running Suse 10.0, my main issue is on how i configure the FTP >> service on this box and i how i harden /set up security on this box so >> that it doesn't get compromised from the outside world since it will be >> running a public IP. >> >> All your help is highly appreciated . >> >> Cheers >> >> Allan >> _______________________________________________ >> LUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >> %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >> >> >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >> attachments if any). 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