Max. 4 modems on SBS 4.5?

[joeblough]

I've got 6 lines comming off a T1 with 6 (planned) modems set aside for... 1 fax line, 1 data line, and a pool of 4 for dial-out. Can this be on SBS 4.5? I hear tell that only 4 modems can be pooled-- but can I have more than one Modem pool like three- one fax, one data, and one random dial-out (with 4 modems) utilizing 6 total modems.<br>
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AND can digital modems be used in this schenario (it seems it is imperative)- or rather a digital modem bank of six? maybe I'm going about this the wrong way-- if so- just say so.<br>
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thanks for your help,<br>
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blake

 

[DougP]

I would be concerned about running too much stuff on an SBS machine.<br>
I have one too (mean I had ONE machine)<br>
Now I have 4 other NEW servers because to many Services on one machine is too much.<br>
One for Internet, one for an MRP package, and one for Accounting running SQL server and we still use the SBS. It's the PDC the others are Member Servers and one is a BDC.<br>
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Here's an anology<br>
If you have a two lane highway and there is a wreck it will sometimes stop both side of the road. On the other hand if there is a wreck on an 8 lane Interstate It almost never stop the other side, and the side with the wreck can still let some cars by....<br>
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Even though Micosoft says you can run NT Server on 24 megs of RAM we all know better.<br>
In other words see about making a communication server.<br>
You can get a Compaq Proliant 800 Server for less than $1600

 

[DougP]

We just installed a DSL modem/line GTE is the provider.<br>
I wanted to keep the monthly bill down as low as possible<br>
the only way I could get it to work was add another member server to the domain and install another copy of Proxy 2.0 on it. <br>
Now it has 2 NIC's in it.<br>
1 goes to the DSL modem and get it's IP from GTE's DHCP server.<br>
2nd is connected to our LAN and has a static IP<br>
10.0.0.70<br>
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The SBS machine of course has DHCP running too.<br>
I could not get it to work on the SBS machine.<br>
I installed a second NIC only to find out that SBS runs DHCP and the second card could no get be assigned a static IP. Also GTe wanted an extra $50.00/month for a static IP. Of course I never tried that method one because of cost and two because it would take another 3 weeks in paper work shuffel. <br>
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Also taking the old Dial up connection off the SBS speeded up it's function considerably casue there was another member handling the load (See 8 lane highway in above Thread).<br>
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Client's get out using Proxy client which is installed local from a shared folder on the New Member server. (it created the folder and added the setup software on the install of Proxy.<br>
And boy is it FAST. DSL is 768K down and 128K up for the Basic pacakge you can get up to 1.5 meg both ways.<br>
What used to take an hour downloading IE 5 takes about 5 minutes now.