I think Hardware VPN is the way to go. Its something you can do on your own, and provided you have internet service and enough bandwidth for your needs the VPN will be an afterthought.
I can help you get the ball rolling if you are interested in going in this direction On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Bernard Wanyama <[email protected]>wrote: > 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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