On 10 Mar 2009 at 10:02, Holstrom, Don wrote: > My museum is disconnected from any other blocks by cable TV, so I cannot > hook up to that without a $15,000 fee. I have FIOS at home and am loving > it, even though they lied to me about connectivity and I cannot run test > web sites from home and I send them way too much dough every month... > > Would a T-1 be a better connection than a 768 up by 5 or 6 MB download > or some other such DSL? I remember using a T-1 much earlier in my career > and it was pretty good, but of course we didn't have the constant use > the web gets by the youngsters now.
ISTR T1 == 1.544 mbps symmetrical. I'd go DSL as splitting 1.5mbps among a mail server and 60 users gives you less than 30k/user if they're all on, or about 75k/user (IOW not much better than 56k dialup) if 1/3 of them are actively online at one time. Splitting 6mbps among the same load gives you 4 times the download bandwidth and uploads won't be much. > I have about 60 serious web users and also run Exchange 2003. I don't > need to host any websites but I do have a couple of dozen remote access > users... If you can get multiple IPs, then put your Exchange server on its own IP and your users on another one, this will protect the mail server IP from being blacklisted if one of your (l)users gets infected and spams the world. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +-----------------------------------+ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
