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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 21:37:19 EST
- From: Jeff@digtype.airage.com (Jeff Wasilko)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Advice Needed on Wide Area Networking
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- We need to connect our two offices (which are about five miles apart)
- together. We run a mix of TCP/IP and Appletalk. The remote site will
- have three or four NCD Xterminals, a couple of printers (hung off the
- NCDs) and five or six Macs. The Macs will be doing light work over the
- remote connection (printing, opening and saving small docs to the
- fileserver, email, etc). We could eventually end up with six or so
- Xterminals and ten Macs.
-
- A 56kb line is the same installation cost as a T1, and the monthly
- difference is only $250/mo ($250/mo for a 56kb line, $500/mo for a
- T1). What kind of demands does X place on the network? Will a 56kb
- line be sufficent, or should we jump to the T1? Our X users are using
- them as terminal replacements, and they're also running WordPerfect
- and Lotus on our Sun.
-
- I'm also looking for suggestions for routers. I'm familiar (by
- reputation only) with cisco (or is it Cisco this week?). What else
- should I consider? Is bridging worth considering, too? What should I
- look for in a good CDU/DSU? Are the all the same, or are there large
- differences from manufacturer to manufacture?
-
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Jeff
- Jeff's Oasis at Home. Jeff can also be reached at work at:
- jwasilko@airage.com
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