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From: dave@ecrc.de (Dave Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Netblazer+T2500+NCD+Xremote ?
Keywords: NCD's Xremote, T2500 and Netblazer
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.143412.1514@ecrc.de>
Date: 20 Jun 91 14:34:12 GMT
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In article <98874@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey
Leedom) writes:
|>| From: dave@ecrc.de (Dave Morton)
|>| Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
|>| Date: 27 May 91 08:53:35 GMT
|>| Organization: European Computer-Industry Research Centre, Munich
|>| 
|>| I'd like to hear from anyone using the Telebit Netblazer plus two
|>| T2500's, one local, one remote with an NCD using the Xremote software.
|>| Can this work to provide dialup users with X at home or remotely at, say,
|>| a trade show, demo etc ?  Any problems you encountered, distances, other
|>| remarks - all welcome.
|>
|>  Urk ...  Uhmmm, I think you have extreme overkill here.  For a single X
|>terminal at home, the only real options are either an NCD running their
|>Xremote software or a GraphOn.  In my past experience (tests conducted
|>last summer), the GraphOn approach has yielded a heck of a lot better
|>performance, but that was a long time ago and I'm getting ready to run
|>another head to head comparison so that should be taken with a grain of
|>salt ...  In any case, neither setup uses IP at the terminal, so a
|>NetBlazer is both overkill and non-useful.
|>
|>  For something like a trade show, on the other hand, where you want to
|>provide general IP connectivity, the NetBlazer is fine, though I'd look
|>closely at investing in four modems instead of two.  The NetBlazer can do
|>bandwidth splitting between two modem connections to give you double the
|>throughput of a single modem connection.  This can be very important even
|>with compressed SLIP because of the overhead SLIP and IP impose on your
|>raw modem bandwidth.
|>
|>Casey
The intention was indeed to allow access from a number of remote users
not just one NCD.
                             
Dave Morton,
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