WAN Routing Basics
As you can imagine, setting up a wide area network is a bit trickier than setting up a LAN. For one thing, when you set up a LAN everything is more or less under your control. (Barring Murphy’s Law, of course.) When you’re constructing a WAN, there are factors that are outside your control.
Choosing the External Connection Type
When setting up your WAN, you want to try to pick the connection type that befits your bandwidth and uptime needs as well as your budget.
In some cases, your options might be chosen for you. Depending on where you’re attempting to get connectivity, you may have the opportunity to choose from dial-up, DSL, ISDN, cable modem, T1, high-speed satellite dish, or carrier pigeon. In other cases, your options ...
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