Hi Herbert,

Tuesday, June 27, 2006, 4:15:47 PM, you wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 10:17 -0500, Patrick Murphy wrote:
>> Hi Herbert,
>> 
>> Monday, June 26, 2006, 3:10:38 PM, you wrote:
>> 
>> > How important is bandwidth?
>> 
>> I don't know - I assume if the colonies could have a connection that
>> doesn't drop below, say, three to four times as fast as Dial-up, they
>> would be satisfied for now.

> Well, what you describe sounds very "bursty", so actual bandwidth
> shouldn't be too bad.

>> I don't think streaming video is currently desired - just basic email,
>> access to on-line banking, and business-related web sites. This will
>> likely expand greatly as the colonies become more familiar with the new
>> options that the Internet will provide.

> Well as a start this might be a good solution for you.

>> I assume the base computer's connection to the Internet should be
>> faster than any other colony's connection - how much improvement
>> might extra bandwith give? 

> Unfortunately I don't have the experience to really be able to recommend
> something specific. The most important thing for the "bases" internet
> connection is that it's a "symmetric" connection, meaning the upstream
> bandwidth is the same as the downstream. Most consumer connections are
> asymmetric which wouldn't work to well for your application (since the
> limit for be the slower direction. Best idea IMHO would be to get a
> symmetric connection for the base with the option of upgrading the
> bandwidth, therefore if your users complain things are too slow you just
> call the ISP and have them up the bandwidth.

Symmetric. I'll have to remember that.

>> I assume bandwith is more a bottleneck than
>> the VPN hardware?

> Unless you're dealing with hundreds of VPN clients you are correct,
> bandwidth will be the bottleneck. Since each colony will only be one VPN
> connection you should be OK.

> Good luck! :)

Thanks!

> TTYL

-- 
Best regards,
Patrick Murphy
James Valley Colony
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