Long time T-mobile user, and I do love the UMA. Supported by most Blackberries with TMO branding. WiFi does hurt battery life, but you have a real cell phone that also works anywhere you can get on WiFi, and uses the same number for both cell and wifi calling.
It's been very edifying listening to you guys talk about your DMZ servers and your application level firewalls and your apparently infinite budgets for admin time and hardware, but what about the real world of small (<10 employees) businesses with a single server running Windows 2000 Server and Exchange 2000 on a single network segment. No ISA, No Checkpoint, no time, no money, no dedicated admin, no understanding of why it might be a good idea. Mostly what we've got for these folks is a Linksys router portforwarding 25, 80, and 1723 for SMTP, OWA and PPTP direct to the server, and teaching somebody onsite to keep an eye out for the critical update notifier. Where does this fit in to the grand scheme of things?
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OK, so go Charly on me - a little Cliff Robertson in his beatnik clothes.
you people are letting me down...
Long time T-mobile user, and I do love the UMA. Supported by most Blackberries with TMO branding. WiFi does hurt battery life, but you have a real cell phone that also works anywhere you can get on WiFi, and uses the same number for both cell and wifi calling.
Hi all,
It's been very edifying listening to you guys talk about your DMZ servers and your application level firewalls and your apparently infinite budgets for admin time and hardware, but what about the real world of small (<10 employees) businesses with a single server running Windows 2000 Server and Exchange 2000 on a single network segment. No ISA, No Checkpoint, no time, no money, no dedicated admin, no understanding of why it might be a good idea. Mostly what we've got for these folks is a Linksys router portforwarding 25, 80, and 1723 for SMTP, OWA and PPTP direct to the server, and teaching somebody onsite to keep an eye out for the critical update notifier. Where does this fit in to the grand scheme of things?
I'd pay cash money for a t-shirt with a tasteful slashdot logo on the back and "Slashdot Longhair"
lettered on the pocket.