From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Are there wires running between the two sides of the street?  It might be
cheaper to "rent" pole space, and string a couple of runs of Cat5
cable.  I know that we looked at it for the studio (2 locations 3 blocks
apart), but we had to cross a main street, and had to go 2 blocks out of
the way to get to a cross street, then we ran into one pole that was Bell
South only, and we got blocked. If the pole carried Electric, and was NES,
we could rent pole space for about 15.00/pole/year, just buy our own wire,
and pay to have it strung.

--
Glenn M.


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:41db3f75$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> Assume a very small business, with 7-9 workstations and an NT4 server they
> really don't need anymore, acting really just as a second NATbox behind a
SOHO
> firewall.  Yes, there are apps running on it, but they could really run on
> another workstations, security excepted.  They've been getting away with
> minimal passwording.
>
> They're moving across the street.  They have a budget.  They may need
access
> to the same stuff from both sites for a while, but I don't think they
really
> need a full remote site with auth.
>
> Can anyone think of a (preferably hardware, minimal-admin) VPN solution
that
> would give them some security while allowing filesharing and central
(antique,
> Excel and vertical) "database" access from workstations in
both sites?  Do
> ISPs ever do a security umbrella around this kind of stuff, allowing web
> browsing for everyone, while keeping the big bad wolf away from both
sites?
>
> --
>
> -Frank
>

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