Mastiff
June 29th, 2003, 10:51 AM
Well, students, I have now conducted very rigorous, long-winded and strictly scientific tests of connection speeds from NetRemote to two different MC hosts under different conditions. Let's first present the candidates.
Hardware:
1. Fujitsu-Siemens PocketLoox with a Trend TEW-222CF compact flash WLAN card
2. HP Ipaq 5450 with built-in WLAN
Connection: Infrastructure mode with Trend BRP-311 22 mbit network bridge/access point/broadband router (with router part deactivated, I'd really kill for DSL by now!)
Software: NetRemote RC6, latest remote server on two hosts running MC, both hostname mode with PocketHosts defining hostnamesand IP address mode.
Method: Opening NetRemote (separate tests - not simultaneous), turning off PPC and waiting until the connection indicator frame in the CCF turns from red to green.
Findings: Hardware did not affect connection time at all. Hostname or IP address did not change anything either (which is as expected since PocketHosts made sure that the hosts file on the PPC pointed to the correct IP address). But signal strength did! With a good signal the connection times varied from 7 seconds and up to 8,5 seconds. With increasingly worse signal strenght the times went gradually up to 12 seconds at the most.
Conclusion: The connection time is prolonged because of the technology of WLAN, not NetRemote. As for bluetooth I have no idea since I never got that crap (pardon the very unintellectual language, this is something I feel very strongly about after several lost hours experimenting without anything else to show for it than headaches and an increased vocabulary in "french") working at all for anything else than connection to a Bluetooth cellphone.
And that concludes the lesson for today, students. You are dismissed. If there's sufficient interest I will hold my next course in connection times in Ad-hoc-mode.
Hardware:
1. Fujitsu-Siemens PocketLoox with a Trend TEW-222CF compact flash WLAN card
2. HP Ipaq 5450 with built-in WLAN
Connection: Infrastructure mode with Trend BRP-311 22 mbit network bridge/access point/broadband router (with router part deactivated, I'd really kill for DSL by now!)
Software: NetRemote RC6, latest remote server on two hosts running MC, both hostname mode with PocketHosts defining hostnamesand IP address mode.
Method: Opening NetRemote (separate tests - not simultaneous), turning off PPC and waiting until the connection indicator frame in the CCF turns from red to green.
Findings: Hardware did not affect connection time at all. Hostname or IP address did not change anything either (which is as expected since PocketHosts made sure that the hosts file on the PPC pointed to the correct IP address). But signal strength did! With a good signal the connection times varied from 7 seconds and up to 8,5 seconds. With increasingly worse signal strenght the times went gradually up to 12 seconds at the most.
Conclusion: The connection time is prolonged because of the technology of WLAN, not NetRemote. As for bluetooth I have no idea since I never got that crap (pardon the very unintellectual language, this is something I feel very strongly about after several lost hours experimenting without anything else to show for it than headaches and an increased vocabulary in "french") working at all for anything else than connection to a Bluetooth cellphone.
And that concludes the lesson for today, students. You are dismissed. If there's sufficient interest I will hold my next course in connection times in Ad-hoc-mode.