If you need to hook up multiple terminals then a LAN setup would be better.
You could pipe multiple connections through a single connection. If
bandwidth was a problem you could use like a PM2 with a BRI board to call
out on multiple channels and connect with more the 2 b channels active.
Other advantages include that Windows TCP/IP stacks have a habit of taking
down sockets if the connection hiccups where if you use a router the
connection may recover.
Take a look at:
http://www.livingston.com/marketing/cases/eldorado_casestudy.html
It's a case study of how Brian Lloyd setup the El Dorado County Library
system using PM2e's and OR's back before Lloyd Internetworking became part
of Livingston.
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