The Ideal/Perfect Business Internet Setup?

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Hi All,

This is a tough one, but hoping to get all peoples aspects and suggestions on what I am sure is a common problem...

What is the ideal Internet business setup for a company with several hundred users?

1) Should Local and International bandwidth be separated to different accounts:
ie. Have an unlimited 4mbit adsl IS account for local
and have a 1mbit diginet for International

2) Two 1mbit diginet line to share the load? (currently have 1)

3) ? (any other suggestions)

Obviously reliability is important (hence diginet is important).

Thanks in advanced!

Hope you have your thinking caps on!!
:)
 
Need to know how many hundred users to start to judge...

Distance from ISP (changes the diginet cost)

Your routing to split local and international will not necessarily be easy but it might be the cheapest option, except of course 1mb diginet won't give you guaranteed 1mb international... its only like 128kb or something guaranteed international access....

From a cost point of view what you might want to do is get 4 or 5 4mb adsl lines and bond them.... with a smaller diginet as a failover link/email link.

If you want to chat about this, you is welcome to drop me a PM and we'll figure it out...
 
Is same as Mr Toxicbunny's suggestion - use bonded ADSL for web browsing and a 128k diginet line for emails only.

Also, the distance from the ISP do make a difference on the diginet cost.

What you can furthermore do, is to offload your email filtering on your ISP, so you'll only have clean email traffic travelling down your diginet line. Should the diginet line go down (for whatever reason) or your email server goes down, then incoming mail will spool at your ISP until the problem is rectified.
 
You can also have ADSL via the SAIX backbone - this I would strongly suggest as IS is sometime prone to have problems with the weather interfering with the satellite transmissions.

However, if you look at bonded ADSL, you can look at splitting it 50/50 - half of them on the SAIX backbone, half of them on IS...

that should give you the best of both worlds, if telscum pulls the SAT3 plug, then you can still go via IS, if IS goes down, then you can still go via SAT3.

Neotel will also be on SAT3 - if you can get hold of them and find out their pricing structures etc, then that would also be a great help.
 
Oh... and ditch that Symantec junk. We're in the process of ditching them... 30Mb's of updates is just too much. And, on top of that, it gobbles RAM and CPU.

I've got a false positive with something I've downloaded. Wasn't impressed.

Get a managed antivirus solution so one PC will collect the updates and push these out to the other machines under its control.
 
Is this just for Browsing Internet Access etc? Or do you host websites mail servers etc?
If for Browsing...
Get 2 unlimited ADSL lines
Route Access to business related sites eg. banks, mail etc over 1 line
And all the rest through the other
Use 4 mb for business and maybe a smaller one for the other, a small price to pay to cut out abuse affecting business operstions.
Would never cough up big $$$ for a diginet line for browsing.
However would never host "serious" business critical sites on ADSL.
Only use diginet for hosting no browsing outgoing traffic - and definately use saix to cut out all the peering problems between IS and Telkom.

My 2 cents worth.
 
Simple routing will also allow you too quickly change the different lines in case of failovers etc
 
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