Hello all, We are a company with about 40 employees (25 + 15 remote users). We want to have 3 VoIP lines to 3 of the executives at their home office locations (in 3 different states). We already have the NEC PBX with VoIP card, we just need to get the remaining HW. We have a Sonicwall SOHO 3 here at our office location. Question: Can we use something like Hamachi at the remote client side to access our sonicwall VPN? Is there a better solution that we should look into? Do we need a managed switch to prioritize the voice packets? One more thing: Do you think that a business class DSL (3 Mbps down/384 Kbps up)will handle the demand for these 3 VoIP phones plus our ordinary INternet usage. We do have data backup to livevault every 15 minutes (about 1.5 GB total)? Thanks in advance for any help.

You should be talking to your NEC vendor concerning these questions. Usually you would need sonicwalls at each end point and create a vpn tunnel from each to the sonicwall at the PBX location. This is not something I have seen done with software. But again your NEC rep will be happy to advise you. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

Thanks wanderer for the info. Yeah I am talking with the vendor now, but like always, it has been nearly a week since I heard from him. He said that he is working something up. Thanks again.