On Tuesday 20 June 2006 23:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ian, I'm unsure why you are cynical (if I've read your comment correctly) > that web services can't deliver relaibly under these constraints. In terms > of volume and throughput they are not very demanding on the bandwidth?
Can't speak for Ian, but at least in my neck of the wood unpredictable long outages (hours to days) are still common. Since we finally got ADSL, performance has become acceptable and useable, but reliability sadly has not improved. We have a 2-way satellite system as backup (at prohibitive costs), alas it's latency make it unsuitable for web services in the context of a snappy user interface. And even then, we had prolongued outages during heavy rainfall where neither Satellite nor ADSL (nor dial-up for that matter) worked. Rural reality, that is. I would not accept a system that *depends* on "allways on" at the present state of infrastructure. This may change in the future, but I won't hold my breath. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
