Hi List. Last fall we replaced all the PC's in the public labs on our campus with Sun Rays displaying Windows desktops through the Windows Connector in kiosk mode. All in all things work pretty well, but we consistently get complaints about poor performance with USB drives.
I've been trying to get more concrete information before seeking help with this, but I've had little luck. I can say for sure that the troubles are real -- copying a few megs from the desktop to the USB drive or back the other way can take 20 minutes. We've seen some indication that some USB drives are worse than others, but since people often don't know the manufacturer or model of their USB drive, it's tough to say anything more specific, and any drive I've tried has been far slower than it would be on a desktop. Our network folks tell us that the wire isn't saturated and that they aren't seeing dropped packets on any of the subnets where our DTU's reside. utcapture begs to differ, but packet drops are usually below 2%, not the kind of rates I'd expect to really foul up a data transfer, and the desktop experience itself is generally fine. So I guess I should ask, is our experience typical? What sort of data transfer rates should we expect if things are working optimally? Assuming that this is not expected behavior, any thoughts on how to go about gathering better information? Thanks, --Michael _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
