VPN - Small Business Value For Money

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Small Business Value For Money

t_p_paterson@hotmail.com

2006-10-16, 7:15 pm

Dear All,

We're running a small business with four workstations currently, plus
I'm on the road a lot with a laptop. I'd love to be able to VPN in
while traveling. We're expanding the office, and may get to eight
workstations plus a couple of network printers, etcetera, so we're over
the eight port size router.

What is the best value and simplest option for setting up a VPN/Router.
We're running on cable modem for the office, currently with 512kbps
with a dynamic IP. Being based in mexico, a static IP is not really an
option as they cost almost as much as having an extra member of staff!

We look forward to your recommendations.

Thomas

t_p_paterson@hotmail.com

2006-10-16, 7:15 pm

Incidentally, we found this product and I wasn't sure if a VLAN is the
same as a VPN? Does this give me remote access to the company's LAN?

It's a Dell PowerConnect 2716.

http://www.dell.com/content/product...=en&s=bsd&cs=04

The price is excellent at about US$200