With the Fed being unable to come up with a solution for Fedline access banks are in a fix. Our PC and I am sure like a a lot of your old FedLine PC's are old and starting to fail more and more offen. We are have great difficulty transmitting our ACH origination files. We have ordered a new DOS (yes DOS type Dell PC) that will arrive this week and also a new encryption board from Jones Futurex that will arrive today. The fed was going to NT, and then scrapped that idea whereas it was already very much obsolete before the Fed was even ready to begin, now they say they are going internet based, but who knows when? The St. Louis Fed is our endpoint and has a Dell configured PC that we must order. The Dell with Avaya modem cost $1722.78, the encryption card cost $960. We have no idea how long we will be using it until the Fed is ready with the internet access. I have a question, If we can keep our old FedLine PC running, can we locate it in a location in our building to send wires, and then can we use the new Dell FedLine PC in another location in our building to second wires? If we can that way we can keep both PC's in communication with the Fed on a daily basis and keep the passwords current and know the hardware is working each day. If we just put the old PC on a shelf who knows if it will still work if we should ever need it as a back-up.
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