Price check for a ADSL setup.

[Cujo]

Its time to go ADSL. Have i taken the correct option, please comment.

Ill be partly subsidized on the costs.

Telkom Closer Option 5 - Monthly subscription includes home line rental, Call Answer and DSL rental - R684. If i keep local calls under an hour they are free ?

Axxiss express+ 384 option - R999 When i hit the 192 throttle will it be fast enough to VPN into clients sites to do remote support ?

If i find the 192 throttle is not sufficing will the local only option from Axxiss run at 1-4mb - all my clients are local. I could purchase a few gigs for local support only and jump between accounts ?

Total monthly cost +-R1683

Your inputs are appreciated

 

[Mineer]

closer option 5 includes line speed of up to 4mbs and according to their website

The speed will be limited to whatever is the lowest - your line speed or the account speed. Ex. 1024K account on 384K line = 384k download speed, 512K account on 4096K line = 512K download speed.

so y not go for option 4 rather as line speed is 384Kbs on that option and price tag is R462 saving 200 bucks

 

[HapticSimian]

closer option 5 includes line speed of up to 4mbs and according to their website


so y not go for option 4 rather as line speed is 384Kbs on that option and price tag is R462 saving 200 bucks

Simple, really - Axxess Express+ gives full line speed at night & over weekends.

Sounds fine. 192k is murderously slow though so you might well wanna spring for a gig or 2 of local for your support duties. At R10 per gig it will hardly break the bank.

 

[Cujo]

Thanks Gents

Is it an easy process to swop between accounts ? Done on the router i expect ?

 

[HapticSimian]

Easy as gets. You could, as you propose, simply change the username/password on the router. You could also set up a default account on the router & a secondary account on your PC (through Windows -> 'Connect to' -> 'Set up a network or connection'). Whenever you 'dial' up the connection on the PC it will override the one set up on the router...

As for the whole 192k being slow - I don't know how bandwidth-intensive the work is you'll need to do. I've read from other posters here that remote computing is more latency-dependent...? Maybe 192k would still suffice?

 

[Cujo]

Thanks Enigma.

 

[wHiTe*LiGhTnInG]

i honustly would'nt waste all that money on a 384 kb uncapped line,, buy urself a 30 gig local account for 130 bucks, and you can still use remote desktop. and 30 gigs is more than enough for that