routers vs WAN vs T1 vs dialup

[Glenn Burkhardt]

> Just to throw this in there, have you thought about business grade DSL?
> It's not as reliable as T1, but it's more reliable than dial up, and it's
> likely to be cheaper than T1.  I'd also recommend going with the separate
> router, BTW, unless you're *really* familliar with Linux, in which case
> learning Cisco doesn't make much sense.  I doubt that you will get much in
> the way of customer support from the ISP if you don't go with hardware
> they know, and WAN problems quickly disolve into finger pointing among
> providers.

I forgot to mention in my original post that our office is out in the 
boonies.  No DSL or cable available.

And, given the savings Net2000 is promising on long distance charges, our
phone bill goes down by $600 a month.

But it sounds so far to me that there's not much more for me to do, since
I've already set a firewall/mail host for my static IP address on the
demand dialup PPP link.  It would seem that all that'll be different is 
the media.  Software changes for my DNS server (used only by my internal
computers), mail server, etc., should involve only name changes (different
IP address, different domain name).

Thanks!

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