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Hi Brad, we do need to meet each other one
of these days since we are in the same city. Interesting. I may have to look into this
further. I had heard that the Sprint service was slow from other users. What is
the best way to buy the hardware and monthly service for this? Is the Sprint
website the only source? Why do you pay for this weather stuff? Why
not use one of the local TV station web sites or WeatherBug? Ken Chipps From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Hello Ken, Yes, Mark is correct. RDC is short
(in my book anyway) for Remote Desktop Control aka Terminal Services or Citrix
etc… Yes, I subscribe to www.wunderground.com for my weather
information. The $5 a year it costs is well worth the money IMO (in my
opinion). <grin> Pulling current, animated radar images
over my Sprint DATA card has not given me any trouble. Speed test confirmation
from www.testmy.net : :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 654 Kbps about 0.65 Mbps (tested
with 579 kB) Download Speed is:: 80 kB/s Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/09/18 - 4:26pm Bottom Line:: 11X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 12.8 sec Tested from a 579 kB file and took 7.25 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay : running at 96.04 % of your
hosts average (spcsdns.net) D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-814GRHMXW I’ve seen well over 1Mbps before,
but even then 654Kbps isn’t that bad. Latency typically looks like
this: Pinging 4.2.2.2 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=163ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=188ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=239ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=170ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=185ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=155ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=368ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=151ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=179ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=200ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=162ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=180ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=181ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=175ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=146ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=185ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=143ms TTL=237 Ping statistics for 4.2.2.2: Packets: Sent = 23, Received = 23, Lost =
0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 143ms, Maximum = 368ms, Average
= 181ms Tracert looks like this: Tracing route to vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net [4.2.2.2] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 171 ms 157 ms
162 ms 68.28.177.69 2
*
* * Request
timed out. 3 191 ms 183 ms
190 ms 68.28.187.54 4 326 ms 162 ms 156
ms 68.28.187.6 5
*
* * Request
timed out. 6
*
* * Request
timed out. 7 162 ms 158 ms
164 ms 68.28.187.97 8 168 ms 153 ms
160 ms 68.28.187.18 9 194 ms 162 ms
157 ms sl-gw11-atl-0-1.sprintlink.net [144.223.140.69] 10 171 ms 161 ms
157 ms sl-bb22-atl-5-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.12.85] 11 161 ms 159 ms
188 ms sl-bb25-atl-9-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.12.38] 12 173 ms 193 ms
189 ms sl-bb22-fw-15-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.8.21] 13 186 ms 186 ms
184 ms sl-bb27-fw-12-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.11.33] 14 180 ms 183 ms
187 ms sl-st20-dal-13-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.83] 15 384 ms 173 ms
167 ms interconnect-eng.Dallas1.Level3.net [64.158.168.73] 16 166 ms 193 ms
206 ms so-1-2-0.bbr1.Dallas1.Level3.net [209.244.15.16] 17 180 ms 183 ms
192 ms ge-11-0.core1.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.40] 18 423 ms 224 ms
199 ms vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net [4.2.2.2] Trace complete. As with most things YMMV. (Your
Mileage May Vary) <grin> Best, Brad -----Original Message----- Remote Desktop Connection
I would suspect… Mark McElvy From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Two questions. What is RDC? Is the data rate for the
Sprint card high enough to download color weather radar images quickly? Ken Chipps
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