RE: Leased Line AS/400 access -- MIDRANGE-L

Jeff;
        We at CMI are in the process of opening a satelite office. Our
solution should run at 3Meg after installing our new directional
antenae. If course being wireless the hardware costs are the only
financial investment in the long-term. We ordered our equipment from
Black Box and it only supports the TCP/IP traffic on Ethernet.

Ken Slaugh
(707) 795-1512 Ext 118
Programmer/System Analyst
Certified Network Administrator MSE
Specialist - Client Access/400

Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.
An IBM Premier Business Partner
P.O. Box 636
Cotati, Ca 94931
http://www.cm-inc.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Crosby [SMTP:jlcrosby@fwi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 1:32 PM
> To:   Midrange List Server (David Gibbs)
> Subject:      Leased Line AS/400 access
> 
> We have a 2nd building 7 blocks down the street.  For eons now we have
> connected this 2nd building to our main building (here) via a leased
> line.  At the other end is a Win 3.1 PC and PC printer.  We run Client
> Access remotely.  The modems are IBM 3865s at 9600.  (I would have put
> in faster modems long ago except the SDLC card is limited to 9600, so
> why bother . . .)
> 
> I need to replace the PC for Y2K compliancy with a PC running Win98. 
> This site needs a 5250 session and printer emulation.  I want them up
> all day, not dial up.  They need to update a spreadsheet weekly that
> is
> stored on the AS/400 in the IFS.  (It takes 5 mins to open this
> spreadsheet at 9600, what a pain.)  We have twinax and ethernet
> (TCP/IP)
> at the main site.  I want the flexibility to have other devices at the
> remote location in the future.  In addition, there may very well be a
> 3rd site (2 blocks down the street in the _other_ direction) in the
> near
> future that I would want connected to the main building as well.
> 
> What is the best way to connect these site(s) to us?  A remote LAN
> access of some kind?  Frame relay?  I know enough about these things
> to
> be dangerous.  In the old days, there was usually 1 way to do
> something
> and that's how you did it.  Now there are many more options.  Microage
> and other PC vendors know LANs and remote access and such, but don't
> know squat about the AS/400.  IBM and IBM Business Partners may tend
> to
> ignore some lower cost solutions in favor of an all IBM answer.  Any
> help pointing me to places with answers is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> -Jeff
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