Bill,
In addition to all good suggestions, you also need to
take care of fire walls. There is no firewall with DSL
modems. You either need a DSL router with firewall or
software shields!
Very Best Regards,
Razzak.
At 01:36 PM 5/16/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Bill,
>If your customer currently has SDSL it probably means that the workstations
>have access to the Internet. Remember that with DSL everyone on the line
>share access and the speed is relative to how many person are connected and
>what they are doing at any one time. If your customer gets 1.5Mb speed
>they will share that with other users in the area and with their own
>internal workstation. In an industrial area this could mean slower
>performance during working hours.
>As I understand it, a T1 would be 1.5Mb all the time regardless of users.
>This is the main difference. It is difficult to measure performance with
>DSL because it would be difficult to measure what your neighbor are doing
>at any one instance in time.
>Good Luck,
>Manuel
>
>Bill Downall wrote:
>
>> I am preparing a proposal for an R:Tango solution. The client is
>> interested in the possibility of hosting their R:Tango application from
>> their own office, through a Synchronous DSL line. Does anyone have
>> experience doing this? What are the practical limits for performance
>> for them.
>>
>> They also would like to use the same physical database within their
>> office from R:Base for DOS and R:Base for Windows, through a Novell
>> network, while their customers and associates are inserting, and
>> updating items through the internet.
>>
>> What experience and advice can you share on protecting their internal
>> network from hacking in such a setup?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Bill
>
>
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