Re: [tlug] VPN appliance and network connection suggestions?

["Jim O'Connell" <oconnell@example.com>]

> Since we depend on minimal latency (hopefully ~150ms to the states)
> and high reliability we can't go with anything like B-Flets or Usen.

When I had the 1.5 Att/JensSpinnet/Flet's combo a few months ago, I was getting very fast pings when connecting to Tokyo from Washington DC - typically around 65ms.  Forwarding X over ssh worked *very* usably. 

YahooBB, even though it is faster at 8, it has much worse latency - 236ms just now from this box to home and I'm only a few kilometers away. :-(
Still, I'm not an online gamer, so it's not really *that* important to me - the website I run from home works well and X/ssh are fine, after a noticeable pause in starting up.

As for the dynamic IP issue, dyndns.org is the way to go.  

I'm running an ipcop router, as is a friend of mine - we have a VPN set up and when it works, it's great.  After a few days of being up, though, the link will die and not restart, though I suspect he might be using dodgy hardware, as he has other issues, where I don't.  (Ipcop can handle VPNs even when using dynamic IPs and gateways, at least in theory.)

I'd test around with people on the list and see what you find out - I'd expect the results to be all over the map.
Cheers, 
Jim

> 
> Well, Usen has a business service, too I heard. Maybe they offer some
> SLA... will check. But for a real backbone connection we'll probably
> have to go with a tier 1 provider. Anyone tried Internap 
> (www.internap.co.jp)? 
> 
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