That’s the big changeover done, with minimal down-time, and hopefully not too much disruption for the users.
Last weekend I set up a 512K DSL line at the office to take some of the load off our leased line. Our leased line is a measly (but very expensive!) 256K. That went well, after a bit of faffing about with the routers (Cisco 837). For some reason, one of the two 837 routers we had was sent to us preconfigured. It took us a while to realise that it wasn’t at factory defaults and go through the reset process. Once that was done the install was quite simple.
Today I went in and did the rest of the config, so now we’re not using the leased line at all. All web traffic goes out via the proxy to the 512K DSL line, while all mail and VPN traffic is sent out separately via a new 1Mb DSL line. Web browsing is already much snappier, and having tested the VPN today, it’s going to be much improved on the new connection. All this, and it’ll save us nearly a 10 grand a year in bandwidth costs. (Sorry Demon! :))
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