In most cases do people think you need a symmetrical service, whereby each
office sends and receives the same amount of data ? Would an arrangement
like SDSL/FR/ATM at a major or head office, teamed with lots of ADSL's for
the branches be more sutiable ?

Arron Scott

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> [mailto:owner-adsl@ns.freebsddiary.cx]On Behalf Of rob.edkins@axon.co.nz
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> To: dan@freebsddiary.org
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> Subject: RE: DSL asymmetry prevents VPN office-to-office connection
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> > > As to the Assymmetry, you probably wouldn't use ADSL for an
> > Office-to-Office
> > > VPN link.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > > You'd use SDSL or IDSL, which are slightly slower, but symmetric.
> >
> > Why?
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> Depends on your requirements, but if you want reasonable performance both
> ways, as in the case of an office to office link, a symmetric link is
> possibly a better choice.
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> You wouldn't get the 5-7 Mb/s download of ADSL, but SDSL can give
> you up to
> 1.5
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