Craig, What is your customers budget? I know you mentioned that Frame may be too expensive but keep in mind that you will only have to purchase bandwidth on one end. The other end will only require a frame local loop. Not sure if that makes sense to you or not. If it doesn't give me a call and I'll explain it and give you pricing if need be. Thanks, Damien Salazar Senior Account Executive ViaWest Internet Services (602)840-8248 Voice (602)840-5250 Fax dsalazar@viawest.net www.viawest.net "Big enough to meet your needs, small enough to care". ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig White" To: Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 7:50 PM Subject: WAN > My friend has 2 store locations that he wants to tie together and one of the > locations is in the Scottsdale airpark which offers few options for internet > access... > > Standard USWest/Qwest DSL not available...the only DSL I can get is thru a > Rhythms connection (various providers will resell this) which offers 128K > for about $120 month where his other office is coming thru at 256K DSL which > tests higher than 512K for $35 per month (+ $30 Qwest). > > We had Sprint Broadband (Speedchoice) and though the downstream speeds are > good...the upstream speeds are nowhere near the 256K and we are thinking > that the lousy 128K IDSL from Rhythms is probably better than the Sprint > Broadband. I do have Linux working and creating a virtual private tunnel > using VPND 1.10 but I think the newer version of VTUN or Redhat 7.0 bundles > in CIPE as part of the package might be more effective. > > I have told him that what he really needs is a dedicated Frame Relay but he > is not going to pony up the price. > > Anyone got any other suggestions? > > Craig > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss