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  3. August 2005

RE: Measuring network transmission times

In general I agree.  Back in the 'good old days' when we ran BPCS on a
B50, we commonly had 19.2Kbps leased lines that supported upwards of 50
devices.  Maybe 5 line/barcode printers, 20 PC Support devices, with the
rest being dumb terminals.  Very low-bandwidth; very efficient.

Of course, that was SNA and we prioritized the 5250 over the print
traffic, but overall, line speed was never an issue.

802.11b is 11Mbps or about 600 times the bandwidth of that old 19.2
line.  802.11g is 54Mbps; even faster.  Heck, my Treo using cellular
data averages 70-110Kbps or around 4 times faster and that's only
supporting a single 5250 session.

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