Hi all,
Since the last time I was here, I am no longer unemployed
I just joined a small IT company that's starting its office in India. The office will have 3 to 4 PCs; most probably 3 desktops and 1 laptop (all xp pro). I think this is how the setup must be:
1. All of the workstations should be to connected to the Internet, probably through a nat. So a good business broadband is required and a nat-enabled device is required.
2. Each user should be able to connect to a vpn network, under different credentials simultaneously. Does vpn require a special broadband plan or can this be done in ordinary business plans?
3. All the PCs should be able to see each other and be able to access a few networked-office equipments like a printer, fax, etc.
4. It's preferable to have a shared/global network drive, though not really important to have one right now. If so, do I need a zombie-storage machine or something(preferably also acting as a gateway machine) for this?
5. There will be a constant need for ringing up the us of A. And we have an ip phone too. There might be another ip phone on the way as well. So, I also need a network that can support these devices and a broadband plan that can go do the same.
So the worst case scenario is 4 PCs accessing some vpn resource while 2 IP Phones are being used. But 80% of the time, 2 machines will be downloading/compiling some source code via vpn and the IP phones are all idle. The office is going to be near vadapalani, chennai.
What I want to know are:
1. Is there any advice for me based on the above points?
2. Which broadband? The grapevine says that only bsnl supports ip phones while the others block it. Is this true? That would reduce the choice to bsnl only.
3. For the above setup, can anyone be kind enough to provide me a network drawing
hyeah: ? Or, more humbly, any advice is great for me.
4. Do I need a dedicated low-end machine with IPCop(linux flavor) running on it for this setup to work? Or, is there a wonder router/switch (or combination) that would work?
Since the last time I was here, I am no longer unemployed
I just joined a small IT company that's starting its office in India. The office will have 3 to 4 PCs; most probably 3 desktops and 1 laptop (all xp pro). I think this is how the setup must be:1. All of the workstations should be to connected to the Internet, probably through a nat. So a good business broadband is required and a nat-enabled device is required.
2. Each user should be able to connect to a vpn network, under different credentials simultaneously. Does vpn require a special broadband plan or can this be done in ordinary business plans?
3. All the PCs should be able to see each other and be able to access a few networked-office equipments like a printer, fax, etc.
4. It's preferable to have a shared/global network drive, though not really important to have one right now. If so, do I need a zombie-storage machine or something(preferably also acting as a gateway machine) for this?
5. There will be a constant need for ringing up the us of A. And we have an ip phone too. There might be another ip phone on the way as well. So, I also need a network that can support these devices and a broadband plan that can go do the same.
So the worst case scenario is 4 PCs accessing some vpn resource while 2 IP Phones are being used. But 80% of the time, 2 machines will be downloading/compiling some source code via vpn and the IP phones are all idle. The office is going to be near vadapalani, chennai.
What I want to know are:
1. Is there any advice for me based on the above points?
2. Which broadband? The grapevine says that only bsnl supports ip phones while the others block it. Is this true? That would reduce the choice to bsnl only.
3. For the above setup, can anyone be kind enough to provide me a network drawing
hyeah: ? Or, more humbly, any advice is great for me.4. Do I need a dedicated low-end machine with IPCop(linux flavor) running on it for this setup to work? Or, is there a wonder router/switch (or combination) that would work?
