From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Aug 6 21:03:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA14422 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 21:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from css.tuu.utas.edu.au (acs@css.tuu.utas.edu.au [131.217.115.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA14415 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 21:03:11 -0700 (PDT) From: andrew@ugh.net.au Received: from localhost (acs@localhost) by css.tuu.utas.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA15826 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 14:04:20 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au: acs owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 14:04:20 +1000 (EST) Reply-To: andrew@ugh.net.au To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Bandwidth on demand Message-ID: X-Meaning-of-Life: none X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, What are peoples suggestions for bandwidth on demand...ie we are currently on 128K ISDN....for very small portions of the day we need more bandwidth... We are STD (long distance) from all backbone providers so bandwidth is even more expensive than usual Australian rates. We currently have a Cisco 2503 (1 BRI, 2 Sync Serial) as our border router. The sort of alternatives I could think of were getting a terminal adapter, connecting it to a sync serial on the cisco and getting the cisco to load balance...but would that work without having to do something at the providers end? How bout if the ISDN was dialled to someone else? 56K modem on proxy box and peer it with another provider? Any other suggestions? Pros? Cons? Thanks, Andrew