>Thanks for the reply Ed. Actually, 20 users is a high estimate of eventual concurrent users. Half a dozen or so is the immediate reality. Was hoping to avoid investing in another server initially, perhaps adding it later. Hoping to hear from someone who has actually tried this.

The issue isn't an additional server, it's more bandwidth on the inbound/outbound line. You're going to be at least an order (or two) of magnitude slower than an equivalent LAN link - the server has squat to do with it, unless you're talking about running Terminal Server, in which case, the fractional T1 is probably adequate bandwidth to run a number of terminal sessions. We have had good results with Win2K AS and TS over VPN, using .5Mbps SDSL, with the SonicWall Soho+10 VPN/Router/Firewall device with 5-10 simultaneous users running a VFP7 app remotely. We use a Dell 1400 server with .75GB RAM and dual PIII/933s for the TS box, which cost well under $5K 6 months ago.