3 Weeks. You are pressed for time. Best is to contact an ISP for a pipe and IPs. You might want to check out www.bandwidth.com John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -----Original Message----- From: Stelley, Douglas [mailto:dstelley@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 6:04 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] slightly off mark but, I need help http://www.MSExchange.org/ OK Folks, I know this is an Exchange forum, but there are some very smart folks here who may have a clue about this. We just got word our ISP is discontinuing service to us. We are a hospital, and don't require too much in the way of service. We have a T1, host our own mail (Exchange 2000)(2-3000 messages/day), have internal DNS servers, have a web site (not too many hits/month) and provide internet access for ourselves (about 200 internet facing pc's) through our own firewall. Our radiology dept sends too many images to use a cable provider, and forget dialup service. We do have many many VPN's set up for venders who need access to servers for maintenance etc. (standard windows 2000 vpn) Here's my question: What would it take for us to host our own ISP? Seems to me our external ISP really provides mainly DNS services to us. web & mail services we do on our own. Has anyone here done something similar? What about getting addresses? We would need a minimum of 25 Internet address assigned to us. We have about 3 weeks to make a change over, and I need to come up with a list of options/prices ASAP. any help would be hugely appreciated. Thanks -Doug Stelley ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this message may be legally privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any release, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error please notify the author immediately by replying to this message and deleting the original message. Thank you.