[Gllug] Strange Attractor Talk

[Jim Cheetham]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:18:13PM +0200, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> I have been asked to set up a remote office (i.e. within a mile) and 
> they need access to the main database applications.  The database is 
> badly written and currently uses access.  Please understand my pain!

Wireless/802.11b sounds tempting, but may well not be the right answer.
If you have line of sight, look at directed things like lasers.
If you have a mutual middle-man line of sight, these may still work for
you.

Otherwise run a fibre? Or ISTR BT have a local-area LAN option hidden
away from the salesdroids that works in/out of the same exchange
(probably a variation on the bell-wire alarm signal that can use SDSL)

If the remote office was definately temporary (i.e. less that 1.5 years)
then fixed-line might not be suitable. If it's very short term (less
than 3 months) then you only really have time for analogue phone or
wireless. In between there are options around ISDN (either point-to
point or into the net) and ADSL, both with VPN if public.

> They now plan to scale it to W2K and SQL.

That's a whole other problem! Access scales well into MySQL ... :-)
And you can still do that on W2K if you have to ...

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