Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency?

2008-04-21 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:16:23 -0400, Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It really does depend. I'd love to send you a softcopy but it was written before I could have saved you one. I have a typewriter written carbon copy. If you have a scanner you could make a JPG image of each page.

Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency?

2008-04-21 Thread Schuh, Richard
: Monday, April 21, 2008 7:54 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency? On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:16:23 -0400, Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It really does depend. I'd love to send you a softcopy but it was written before I could have

Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency?

2008-04-21 Thread Brian Nielsen
Of Brian Nielsen Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 7:54 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency? On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:16:23 -0400, Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It really does depend. I'd love to send you a softcopy

Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency?

2008-04-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Mike Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've determined an average workstation latency (simply using PING) for a workstation far, far away as being about 380-400ms. But we don't know what it would be like to actually WORK on that workstation day-in and

Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency?

2008-04-19 Thread Adam Thornton
On Apr 19, 2008, at 3:03 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Mike Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've determined an average workstation latency (simply using PING) for a workstation far, far away as being about 380-400ms. But we don't know what it would be

Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency?

2008-04-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
For 3270 you may find bandwidth sooner to be an issue. Long time ago I worked on 300 bps. When someone then put a 'FULLREAD ON' in some shared XEDIT profile (because IBM recommended it) I had plenty of time to think about adequate punishment... Jim is very right about expectations. Many

Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency?

2008-04-19 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Mike Walter writes: We've determined an average workstation latency (simply using PING) for a workstation far, far away as being about 380-400ms. But we don't know what it would be like to actually WORK on that workstation day-in and day-out. Most of the work would be in support of

Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency?

2008-04-19 Thread Rick Troth
Mike ... Maybe you need to re-think the problem. What if the interactive part could be handled locally with file synchronization carried out in the background? If you need the remote also for execution, that could be driven over SSH with commands stacked onto the session(s). Something like this:

Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency?

2008-04-19 Thread Rick Troth
RSYNC is nice because it (normally) only copies what has changed. -- R;

Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency?

2008-04-18 Thread Mike Walter
We've determined an average workstation latency (simply using PING) for a workstation far, far away as being about 380-400ms. But we don't know what it would be like to actually WORK on that workstation day-in and day-out. Most of the work would be in support of Linux for System z servers.

Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency?

2008-04-18 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Mike--The answer is it depends (Bill Bitner) but that answer is also contained in a paper I wrote in about 1970 while working on my MBA at the University of Chicago. It was entitled Psychological Aspects of Terminal Response Time and it earned me an A for the course. It really does depend.

Re: Setting a reliable MINIMUM connectivity latency?

2008-04-18 Thread Mark Post
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:19 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've determined an average workstation latency (simply using PING) for a workstation far, far away as being about 380-400ms. That's a bit on the high side for non-blocked keyboard I/O.