Burst is line speed - 64kbps for these circuits.

The problem is not a general speed issue - I could care less if it took 24 hours to transmit an update. The main issue is that these are thin clients, which mean that they are extremely susceptible to changes in latency. Even small transfers will monopolise the link and make applications unusable.

Each of our machines is configured to request the updates from an server whose DNS name is individual to the machines location. Initially the DNS record is a CNAME for the main repository at head office, but as SUS enabled servers are rolled out the DNS name is changed to point to the local server to relieve bandwidth. There is a gotcha with this method, which is laptops, tch.