I am setup at a local provider with rack space and bandwidth, what is required for me to be able to add a T1 connection from my office to the rackspace. Not sure I will do this but might consider if the hardware is less than a couple of grand.

I am aware that the LEC charges about 150 for the local loop and I already have sufficient bandwidth. What else would I need to pay for.

Also am I correct to say that a T1 connection can not burst above a 1.544Mb/s rate. A message on this board made mention that this is not true.

Thanks I appreciate this board and have already learned a great deal.

That sounds like a very similar setup to what I use for my house.

I use the WAN cards from Sangoma.com and have been very happy with them. You can get them for about $800 each with the integrated CSU/DSU. Basically, you put one of these into a Linux (or other OS) box at each and, and plug the T1 into it. Turns any box into a router...

Yes, it's true that a T1 is limited to 1.54Mbps.

To sum it up, a router and csu/dsu.

I wish I could get a T1 or even a fractional at my house, but I can't afford one.

Man them card look very cool from Sangoma.com. Do you know off hand if you can run more then one per box. So say you have 4 T1 could you rjust run them all in to 4 of these cards and back out 1 or 2 nic cards?

Also are they easy to setup. What i really mean easyer then a Cisco router.. :) I still hate setting up routers.

I was thinking about making a box just to do this and running out Lan T1's right in to it and forgetabout messing with the cisco routers for our lan would save me time.

Any info would be killer i am trying to read over there site but does not seem to give a lot of info on this stuff.

Vortech,

Talk to them to be sure, but I'm 95% sure you can use more than one card in a box. As far as being able to use several T1's to gain aggregate bandwidth, you'd need to be running the proper routing setup to do that. (Way beyond the scope of this sicussion.)

They are easier to set up than a Cisco, but it's still not a task for the faint of heart. Documentation wasn't what it could have been when I got mine a year and a half ago; hopefully it's improved since then. But, the folks there are very friendly and helpful.

BTW, this probably borders on advertisement, so I'll be careful... but I can get you better prices than on their site. Contact me if you need details.

Thanks Travis. I am going tosend you a e-mail in a few.