> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardhats- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Toppenberg > Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 8:08 PM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] I've got the slow CPRS blues..... > > > --- Thurman Pedigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... There was a time I ran POTS and 56k modem with > > excellent performance. <tlp> This was 1991 FileMan Telnet connection - not CPRS > Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > Hmmm... I am having a hard time figuring out all this > bandwidth stuff. We are also running a billing > software package which could be eating up all the > bandwidth. Someone suggested that I set up some > bandwidth monitoring. This is really what I need to > do. But I'm not quite sure how to do it. Currently > our confuration is like this: > DSL modem-->VPN firewall/router-->PC's <tlp> My experience is software VPN chews up a LOT of bandwidth - I think hardware VPN as with a firewall may a lot faster. Hopefully, I will know soon.
> > I think that to run sophisticated monitoring, I would > need to insert a linux box with two network cards > between the DSL modem and the VPN firewall. Or maybe just tracert if you haven't already- be sure you know the timing, and where the signal is going. Hopefully, VPN does control that. > > But if you were able to run one copy of CPRS on a 56k > line, that's pretty good. But were you running CPRS > from home (which I doubt because of that pesky > no-CPRS-through-a-NAT/router-problem), or were you > running something like PC Anywhere remote desktop > software? <tlp> Microsoft Remote Desktop. Every client, office or remote location connects via remote desktop. See below for server connection notes. >The bandwidth requirements for these two > programs might be quite different. <tlp> We have a "nailed down" T1 (1.55mbps) office to home. I little more expensive, though totally secure, therefore "home" is behind the office firewall. I do have a router with a CSU/DSU on each end (other configurations available). It costs a few more bucks. However, it is the most trouble free point-to-point connection going. No need for added firewall, VPN, or other security overhead. Nor does it care what software you use. I think I recall you have something over 40,000 patients in your database. What is not clear to me is whether you have the same problem with only a few patients, or did you bring the remote site up after the database was fully populated? I don't have my db fully populated, though I see nothing to suggest it will be appreciably slower. Certainly, the CPRS page refreshes at a very nice rate. We connect to the server via "remote desktop", so VISTA/CPRS thinks everyone it talks to resides on the server. I also wonder if that 1.55mbps would be a lot slower if there were over three people at one time on it (our most to date)...tx/t ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
