[184759] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dial Up Solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Johnston)
Sat Oct 17 13:52:53 2015
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From: Colin Johnston <colinj@gt86car.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 18:50:26 +0100
To: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On 17 Oct 2015, at 16:54, Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net> wrote:
>=20
>> On 10/17/2015 07:29 AM, Jason Canady wrote:
>> I'm going to go with Justin's suggestion and go with a wholesale
>> provider such as DialupUSA. It's not worth paying for the lines and
>> keeping a T1 or better for just a few users. DialupUSA use to charge
>> around $5/user. They also had hourly and per port options. Looks like
>> you can port existing numbers to them now. I used them 9-10 years ago
>> and they were great to work with! IKANO bought them out since then, but
>> they still operate under DialupUSA.net. They have DSL and T1 options too=
.
>=20
> The ISP I consult to uses an outsource dial service (don't remember which o=
ne). They require us to maintain a RADIUS server accessible from the public=
internet, to validate callers and handle options and restrictions. You pro=
bably have a RADIUS server already, but you may need to make minor (but tedi=
ous) modifications.
>=20
> Factor that into your planning.
