I work at a not-for-profit agency (read “no money to spend”). We are currently accessing the internet using 128K ISDN in our main building with about 50 occasional users, and about a dozen fairly heavy users.
As we are driven more to web basedapplications for reporting and interacting with various other agencies, we are finding we need to increase our bandwidth.
The only broadband access choices we have available are satelite (forget it), DSL and wireless.
I have two quotes -1.the wireless option is
shared access at 1500Kbps Download and
512Kbps Upload for $129.00 per month.
2.the DSL is dedicated bandwidth at 256K both
ways for $179 per month.
Both include 1 static IP address.
I have a remote office with Cable access that I would like to set up to VPN into the main building to use some Access databases.
Any thoughts on which way is better? I have been given some advice that I would actually see better performance on the dedicated 256K line than on the shared wireless.