He did not say where the office is located but in NYC it is possible to get one cable connection from TWC and one from RCN. If you get the business class service from each you can even run BGP.
Cheers Ryan From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 6:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Which router do you like best for this? Good catch Jim. Stu, make certain that you are getting your links from dissimilar ISPs that have different backbone networks. -- ME2 On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jim McAtee <[email protected]> wrote: Two feeds from the same cable company? If so, the only way one is going down while the other stays up is if there's a physical break in one of the lines between the curb and the building, which I would think should be very rare. I don't think I'd bother setting up such a scheme if failover is the goal. And few ten person offices need a 50 Mbps internet connection, so load balancing two of them accomplishes very little. Better would be to set up the cable connection to be used all the time, and fail over to a slower DSL link. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stu Sjouwerman" <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 12:27 PM Subject: Which router do you like best for this? I'm creating an office for 10 people to start with, and want a router that can take two different (50/5) cable feeds and load balance them. When one feed gets cut, the other feed takes over and at least we'll have access. What router do you like best for this type of use? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
