[oclug] Samba over Internet

[Derek Cunningham]

On Tue, Mar26,02 13:14, Ross Jordan wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar26,02 13:03, Michael Thomas wrote:
> > >   Anyone here accessing a samba server over a cabe/dsl speed internet
> > > connection? I have got it working but the speed is abysmal. I have
> > > looked at a number of optimization docs but they all seem geared at
> > > enhancing LAN access speed. Anyone have any tips for speeding things up
> > > over slower speed links?(I am using W2K SP2 clients)
> > Cable: maximum upstream of 500MBits (translates to around 60K/s transfer rate)
> > DSL: maximum upstream of 128MBits (translates to around 15K/s transfer rate)
> This is only true for some providers (istop.com offers different
> rates for dsl -- i.e. 3m down/800k up and similar)
>

To make that statement totally accurate, this is only true for some
packages. Bell also offers higher speeds... none-the-less, when someone says
"hey, I've got DSL, and I want to do X"... it would seem to me to be a
pretty safe bet that the person is speaking of standard DSL packages.
Besides, even if he IS using the 3Mbit DSL, the speads are still only around
100K, which will NEVER be comparable to ethernet, and will likely never be
usable for anything other than printing.

What Mike should do... is wire each of the locations with dry pair (there's
other terminologies associated with this technology, see
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010823.html for a great article
from Robery Cringely). Sure, there's a considerable amount of investment in
equipment, but after that the monthly rate should be fairly reasonable (I've
heard estimates of around $40-50 from Bell), AND the speeds can be 2MBit
bi-directional!
 
DC

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