Thread: OpenVPN?

Originally Posted by peterb You really need to sit down and write a good business case. Look at the alternatives, the costs, and the risks, and if you can, do a cost/benefit analysis. That will inform your recommendation, and the decision of your boss. Thanks, I'll certainly try and do that, coz I can see what the benefits would be.

put it this way if you want to build a couple of open VPN boxes the cost of electricity alone over 24 months would probably be more than the drayteks

<rant> You can if you have the time and energy to fart about with netgear routers, but think of this another way. If this connection goes down - how many staff are affected by this downtime? - how much lost productivity could be lost ? 2 * £150 routers that do the job and do it well works better than a couple of £40 routers with OpenVPN on the servers at either end. So yes you can do this the cheap way, but it will come back...

Originally Posted by Allen (that's cheap as chips, we're a small business) And with that attitude, the business will remain small. Or even die. I bet they also don't believe in paying for staff training. If I were you, I'd be constantly looking for another job I hate pikey businesses. I've worked for a few in the past. Resigned from one without another job to go to. Best thing I ever did.

Small businesses is our client base and all of them use Draytek routers, we are slowly upgrading them from 2600/2800 to the 2820's mainly as the routers have come a long way, but also a lot have the option of ADSL2 Setting up a VPN with two Drayteks is very simple, I have a 2820 at home with an IPSec tunnel to our office from when I work from home. As already mentioned, for a reliable and simple site to site VPN, Drayteks are easily...

I haven't used two Drayteks back to back, but as a client to network VPn, they really do work well. From the point of view of ease of set up, they are also worth the money. Currently it is possible to buy 2820s at about £120 (I assume that you'e business is VAT registered). Offset that expense against corportaion tax (if you are a limited company) and thsat effectively reduces the cost of 2 to £200 for 2.The other features that...