casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) (06/06/91)
| 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