Re: remote site access iSeries via dsl

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Printers are more the limiting factor for remote sites than green screen 
sessions.  Just a few high-speed printers can eat up all of your 
bandwidth very quickly.  IBM used to publish a set of guidelines for 
SDLC circuits by printer model but I wouldn't know where to begin to 
look for it.

The upstream 384 should be more than adequate.  I'm assuming that the 
central site has a T-1 or larger connection.  I would not use DSL at the 
central site.

Jim Franz wrote:
> How many users in a remote office can one reasonably support with a 
> business dsl circuit 3.0 mbps downstream and 384 kbps upstream?
> Each pc using Client Access (telnet).
> Looking for actual experiences. This is for 2 remote sites of 
> 5 or so users each, and would be similar dsl at both iSeries & each 
> remote site. Moderate accounting usage all day.
> Is dsl too light for this? The 384 upstream scares me. 
> Would plan some level of router to router tunnel.
> Jim Franz