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Aspirant

Oct 13, 2015

Suggestions for Network Architecture

Hello, Would anyone out there be able to suggest what would be the best setup for a small business network with a remote office, and external salesperson? The primary office is currently usin...

Aspirant

Oct 14, 2015

Thanks for that Dane,

There was something that I left off. We have get a Dynamic IP from our ISP, is this an issue.

Another thing that has been raised by a friend is VPN's need descent upload speeds, what I got from our modem is we are currently only getting about 7616 kbps download, and 384 kbps upload. I'm guessing this would make a difference for the remote person...

Thanks.

SamirD

Prodigy

Oct 17, 2015

You can do a vpn with dynamic ips. Since your router is on 24x7, you won't lose the IP unless the isp is making network changes. I've only seen this happen once in about 2 years, so it's not a big deal. I have several fvs318n's doing site-to-site vpns using dynamics.

Bandwidth is going to be important dependent on what you'll be using the connection for. If you're going to be transfering huge files, bandwidth can be a real issue. If the remote user will only need access to large files at the home office, then you can have him remote desktop over the vpn to a system at the home office and work with the files that way. This is a configuration we use where we have paper scanned to our home office from several sites and then I view them remotely by rdping into a system at the home office. Even with only 4Mbit upload, I can work fairly well from almost 1000mi away.

These are just some ideas to start. Post up some more information about your workflow and I'm sure we can dial in a perfect solution. The fvs318n is a good unit to work with, even with its quirks.

fordem
Mentor
Oct 19, 2015
VPNs can be done with dynamic addressing if a dynamic DNS provider (for example DynDNS) is used, however, upload speeds that low, will be a bit of a problem.