Re: [WinMac] setting up a new MAC lan...

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:06:53 -0400

At 8:21 AM -0400 10/1/99, tom lyczko wrote:
>1. People are recommending DLT tape backups. Please keep in mind
>that not everyone has a LOT of money to spend. Budgets have to be
>kept in mind, particularly when the company's managers are not
>technically knowledgeable, as mine are.

        The big trade off (IMHO) between Tape and everything else
when setting up a backup strategy is simple - "Do you want someone to
have to baby sit the backup?" A single tape is going to be large
enough to hold your entire backup, so you can set it up and leave it
alone, while any other medium (Jaz, CDR, etc.) is going to require
swapping and that means a person's time! You pick the cost
tradeoff...

>2. People are saying not to get cable modems, but to get DSL
>instead. DSL is just as much a security risk as cable modems,

        No, it isn't! DSL is safer because it's not a shared line
(usually - some types of DSL can be but they aren't used all that
often). Also, if you're using NAT on your DSL line, the chances for
hacking the machines on the other side of the router are boardering
on NIL.

>and nowhere near as easily available. Please don't assume that DSL
>is universally available. It's not. It's months and years away for
>people who don't live in places like NYC, Chicago, SF, etc.
>
        That is certainly an issue - no question!

        Another thing to keep in mind with Cable vs. DSL is that
Cable modems are designed to be "half-duplex" in that the download
speed is high, but upload speeds SUCK (some cable modems use standard
56K for uploads). That means that if you are going to be doing a lot
of data sends (Email, FTP uploads, etc.) you may want to look beyond
cable.

Leonard

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