It's Friday. Friday at the end of a grueling week, so my brain is a bit tired and I could use some help mulling something over.
Despite being in the third largest metropolitan area of the US (Dallas/Arlington/Fort Worth) and despite being in one of the largest commercial/industrial districts in the DFW area, I find myself in a black hole in regard to connectivity to the outside world. For the last three years, this has sucked pretty hard.
I have a T1 provided through our SIP trunk provider, but it is dedicated for voice. Our internet and email are handled by an AT&T DSL that on a good day is about 2.5 Mb down and 768k up. Shared with 27 computers. Yeah...
Nobody that I can find offers business ethernet to our location, no cable company services our location (although Time Warner will be happy to wire us up for $37,000), and Towerstream (sat) doesn't reach us either. AT&T has suggested having two seperate DSL connections to effectively double our bandwidth, I'm just not sure how best to leverage that with our network scenario.
Our PCs and phones are moving data over the same physical Cat5e wires and switch. The VoIP data goes to an in-house PBX server, and that server has its default gateway set to the T1 router's IP. The other data moves through the DSL router. I also have my office PC set up to use the T1 connection so that I can still connect to it remotely and RDP to the rest of the network if the DSL is log-jammed or something is wrong with it.
Any thoughts about how to best go about leveraging two separate DSL connections in a domain environment? My first thought was some sort of aggregation appliance, but I'm not sure. I've got "tired head" right now, and the company Xmas party, which I'm dreading, is tonight. Must.... make it... to.... Saturdaaaaaaaaaayyy.