Hi Wol: We have 10/100 mb router and find no problems. Most of our clients have those or 1gb routers and find no problems. The reason to open more than one connection is not be linear on the updates and allow the staff to do something else than watch the update. Most of the time spent on installation is creating files, updating indexes, compiling dictionaries and compiling programs. None of these tasks requires any amount of data to accomplish this.
We not moving that much data that we could overwhelm any of today's routers or internet. Most of the data copied is dictionaries and programs which is a few megabytes if that. Our biggest installation is about 20 megabytes. Regards, Doug www.u2logic.com "Applications software for all business" On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Wols Lists <[email protected]>wrote: > On 16/06/11 17:18, Doug Averch wrote: > > On some of our Client systems we open 3 connections and use all of those > > connections to updating their site simultaneously. We do not have to do > > linear installs anymore which cuts our installation time from several > hours > > per site to about 15 minutes depending on how many packages we have to > > install. > > Why multiple connections? Is this just for speed, a bit like these > "download accelerators"? > > Just a tip-off, but from what I've read, this could be disastrous. The > accelerators work fine up to a point - that point being at which a > router gets overloaded. And due to a design failure (basically hardware > and software guys not talking to each other) if a router does overload, > it basically locks up :-( > > And the router that overloads is nearly always the edge router between > the internet and the office. I think I've managed to do exactly that on > a couple of occasions, and the internet simply *appears* to die, until > you kill the downloads. > > Cheers, > Wol > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
