Iraqi Internet

Some of you might be wondering how I even get Internet access to update this blog. Here's the story.

Back in Ft. Riley - Our commander was approached by the commander of the unit we replaced and was asked if we wanted to buy their system. Everyone chipped in about 50 bucks to purchase the satelite system. When we got here we found that their system setup was not ideal. We decided to purchase a server to provide security, firewall, virus scanning, filtering, and caching to help use our limited bandwidth as much as possible.
We also decided to increase our bandwidth to 4Mbps down/2Mbps up. Right now the system consists of three networks all connected back into the firewall, each network has about 10 wireless access points. The system has roughly a 125 people on it.