[TriLUG] OT: Arranging Employer Provided Broadband is Hard

[John Broome]

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Scott Chilcote <scottchilcote at att.net>wrote:

> Hello LUGers,
>
> My employer is upgrading their VPN. Since I work from home much of the
> time, they want me to upgrade my broadband connection.  They want static
> IP, and will cover moving up to faster service (~20 Mbps).  Who am I to
> refuse?
>

I don't understand why $WORK is requiring the vpn *client* to have a static
IP.  I'm all for faster broadband, but i just ran a speedtest on my
connection (that I WFH on) and got this:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3203004028.png  No issues here.

It seems like this will be a paperwork nightmare on the ISP side of things.
 Could you bump up your current service & do a recurring monthly expense
report to $work to get reimbursed for it?