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- In article <2p3lom$gnt@netaxs.com> peb@netaxs.com (Paul Begley) writes:
- >Theodore Karas (tkaras@mason1.gmu.edu) wrote:
- >: Please forgive me if some of my questions seem dumb, but I'm very
- >: confused about many of these issues. I would like some kind of estimate
- >: (in kilobytes/sec. for example) to send data over a LAN. Are there any
- >: estimates out there, or maybe a way of measuring this information.
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- >Data transfer rates are limited (typically) by the network interface
- >rather than the network speed for a LAN. For slower connections, the
- >limit is the throughput of the modem and overhead of the protocol
- >(SLIP, ZMODEM, etc).
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- I came across an estimate of about 800 kb/sec.
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- >: Another question I have is how could I send data over a network and then
- >: use it in a windows program? WinSock? Any help would be greatly
- >: appreciated. Thanks.
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- >Data is data. If you transfer binary files, you should be able to
- >process the specific file type (GIF, JPEG, MS-Word, etc). If its
- >ASCII, any editor.
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- What I'm trying to do is have a computationally intensive application
- on one node of a network, while I diplay the data in a Windows
- application somewhere else. Isn't this what people are doing?
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- >This is independent of the type of connection (network, async, etc).
- >
- >--
- >Paul Begley
- >peb@netaxs.com
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- Thanks again.
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- Ted
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