ISP for connecting 25 shops

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Vox Populi Vox Dei

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Here's the deal:

One of my mates has a dad who owns 25 Bargain Books retail outlets. He's obviously running up a huge bill on dial-up and wants ADSL. The ADSL will be used for email/accounts/stock-taking etc so using a Business Uncapped ADSL solution will be preferred - however the problem is most uncapped connections only allow max 4 concurrent connections and he doesn't want to go the Diginet route.

Thanks.
 
Get a IS capped account.. and ask for more Concurrent connections on each account.. (for business use 5gig or 10gig will be fine for 10shops) Unless they all download other stuff.. other than emails and documents.
 
Why not get a VPN up between the shops? Almost like a very big LAN, with one central connection to the internet. Not sure of the technical details or even if my terminology is correct, but that's the general idea right?
 
Inertia said:
Why not get a VPN up between the shops? Almost like a very big LAN, with one central connection to the internet. Not sure of the technical details or even if my terminology is correct, but that's the general idea right?
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Yeah that's what my mate is thinking. Problem is that he's like the resident IT guy (although he hasn't got a degree yet) and therefore setting up a company VPN is way out of his realm.
 
I had to reload windows because of hamachi. stuffed up my network adapter.
 
Dominic Rooney said:
Yeah that's what my mate is thinking. Problem is that he's like the resident IT guy (although he hasn't got a degree yet) and therefore setting up a company VPN is way out of his realm.
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Why not hire a professional to do it?
 
I suggest talking to IS - they recently proposed a very clean solution to us for a similar setup, using ADSL connects to their own VPN and allowing only 1 breakout to the net ( much easier to control ). They proposed automatic backup via the cell network, and the whole thing was very reasonably priced. Could run VOIP between branches/head office too.
 
Inertia said:
Why not get a VPN up between the shops? Almost like a very big LAN, with one central connection to the internet. Not sure of the technical details or even if my terminology is correct, but that's the general idea right?
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how do you connect the outlets to the VPN without ADSL? really long network cables? Im a little confuzed here.
 
Well i'm not a real VPN pro. Is the entire VPN hooked up with DSL lines? If so then i was a bit mistaken. Indeed i thought really long network cables were used, something like laying fibre etc. In hind sight that was a bit naive considering our geographical location.

jabulani's solution sounds good tho
 
Might be good to link up the shops over a VPN using IS accounts so you can have them talk to each other using local bandwidth. You'd save traffic through a proxy at a central location and could save yourself the expense of phone calls using a VOIP system on your VPN. You could also monitor which shops are using more traffic than others by forcing it through a proxy and limit it from a central location.

PM me if you're interested. We could probably provide something like this. :)
 
Mweb has something called ADSL multi-site

It allows you to have one main account with as many user accounts as you want.

And you just allocate space as needed.

it is MWEB though so it isn't exaclty cheap
 
The VPN quote .... oh and im the "mate" anyhow its gonna cost 66000 per month so ya.......

32 shops aswell

:D
 
hsdpa woold have worked really well if they had laptops?

can u get hspda cards for computers?

2 rand a meg is not bad for emails and documents
 
You can get USB HSDPA cards. And its less than R2/mb on a bundle anyway. What sort of data transfer do they need per site, in terms of Mb/Gb?
 
i doubt its a fast connection needed

i mean its daily reports sales etc cant be that much info

if you go with birgin would be .50c a meg

can u like to say cheap cheap
 
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