Looking for suggestions support two ISP connections
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Currently the VPN tunnel supports DNS queries, AD authentication and the occasional file access, but the main work is done via an internet web app and that goes direct, not through our main branch.
I plan to add VOIP phones to the new location, so this will put upwards of 8 phones worth of traffic on the VPN as well.
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Well then, buy three pipes each site, get some 380s and watch some serious speed go through them.
Usage is gonna go up considerably versus what you saw before with the different sites. Remember all those goons are now gonna be concentrated to a single site. Where one user slurping YouTube wasn't a problem before, they are all now together and slurping down YouTube, making things horrible.
Two 50/10 pipes each site for VPN connections and mission critical data, schlep interwebs over to the low bandwidth pipe. So what if they can't stream audio and get their cat pictures as fast as home?
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I guess you're missing my current setup.
Of my 85 users, 78 of them are at my main location, all sharing a 10/10 pipe today, and have been for 7+ years.
The remote sites have all had 15/3 for those 7+ years.
At my main location, my main carrier can get me 100/15(20) but the backup carrier can't get me more than 12/2. I'm reaching out to other carriers, but I'm pretty sure they have no last mile access in my main location, so I'd be stuck with the two I'm currently looking at anyhow.
At the new locations, the primary carrier is the same, 100/15(20), but the backup can give me 100/100 over DSL (so they claim).
But I don't see the point in trying for 3 connections, when 2 will give me 5x at least more download than I have today.
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Sounds as though your users have gotten used to using the slower pipe.
Two might be just fine. Keep your options open by buying the ability to get a third pipe in. So if the users suddenly see all this bandwidth, they might start getting sassy and slurp down shit, plugging in their own equipment and doing crazy crap. You might also start needing that much more bandwidth, start using O365, Sharepoint, and all kinds of cloud storage. You might get another site fired up, and those few users at the remote site will need to share ~13Mbps upstream with each other. Your also need to determine if you need HA at some point, adding another DSL pipe would let in some bit of redundancy.
If you are going like for like, yes, with your plan now it should be fine. But since these are usually two to three year contracts, start future proofing yourself now. Look longterm, but don't go bleeding edge.
As for a 100Mbps DSL loop, totally possible. AT&T's U-Verse Gigapower is VDSL2+, but the loop has to be super short, so lots of it is new construction areas with fiber to the VRAD and 1000' loops to the locations. CenturyLink is offering a 100Mbps DSL pipe over a pair bonded VDSL implementation, but I don't believe they are offering symmetrical loops.
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@PSX_Defector said:
CenturyLink is offering a 100Mbps DSL pipe over a pair bonded VDSL implementation, but I don't believe they are offering symmetrical loops.
They claim to be now.
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I'm starting a new thread to talk about internet connections themselves leaving this one for the firewall questions.
