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FPD - Remote servers - how?
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25/11/1996 14:38:28
 
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>>
>> >My client has 2 sites. On in W and one in N.
>> nice names you have in belgium :)
>>
>> >The problem is that they need to increase the hardware in N (at least 1
>> >station and printers), so it seems logical to install a server in N.
>> >They also run a standard package in DOS and my programs in FPD.
>> >
>> >At first view, we could link the 2 servers with ISDN at 64kb. Apart
>> >from budgetary considerations, would that be comparable in speed with PC
>> >Anyware that only has to refresh the screens, albeit at 9600baud?
>>
>> you are asking if a 9.6kbit connection is comparable to 64kbit?
>> anyway they can also use frame-relay line etc.
>> every solution that will involve making the LAN a WAN as the NOS level should be transparent to the FPD program
>>
>> Arnon
>
>
>I'm afraid that is not true! Because with PC-Anywhere, all that has to
>pass over the lines is the refreshment of the screens, the actual work
>being done on the local PC-communication server. If we install the
>server, the actual file accesses will have to be processed over the
>communication lines. Another client of mine has a configuration like
>that, (but there is just a server at the client site), running at 256kb,
>and believe me it is the limit.
>
well maybe I didn't understand your q.
but I thought what you want is to put a server in N
and thus you need the data to be syncronized not only see the screen of a remote computer...?

Arnon
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