My last post just two weeks ago was the beginning of a very long couple of weeks. While nothing particularily could have been done to prevent it, there was also no redundancy. First one of the two media converters connecting the fiber between our two current building went bad. The building affected of course was the church offices with almost the entire minsterial and support staff not able to connect to the internet or the LAN. We had all our fiber re-terminated and it worked better than before, until two days later when our T1 went down. It was going up and down and they got this fixed within a day a half, which was great until 1/2 an hour later (no exageration) the main data trunk of our provider was cut. This normally wouldn’t be a huge time delay other than it was running under a manhole and that had to be drained and traffic rerouted before they could repair. Fun couple of weeks!
Needless to say we are currently looking at a wireless redundant system to connect the two buildings and a secondary internet line from a different provider.
Any help assistance or solutions you’ve already gone through in these areas would be greatly appreciated.