[THIN] Re: Need Advice - Users connecting from hotel doubling as office

  • From: Durf <stygmata@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:22:52 -0500

Forget what the hotel can provide and get them an EVDO card with a Kyocera
Mobile Router:

http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/kr1-router/

-- Durf

On 3/22/06, Kinchen, Tyler <Tyler.Kinchen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> David, in the past I have had some success with turning off "Use data
> compression" over some connections.  If they are using the full PN client
> with a connection defined it's on the Options tab of the properties
> dialog.
> I'm not sure where you would change it for the web client.  I think it may
> be in an .ini file on the client.  HTH.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tyler Kinchen
>
> ________________________________________
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> Of Peterson David
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:26 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Need Advice - Users connecting from hotel doubling as
> office
>
> We have a team of users connecting to Citrix from a hotel in West Virginia
> that they are using as an office, they will be there for about a month,
> but
> could be back there several more times for a month at a time. They are
> experiencing problems with Citrix being slow, or disconnecting. I believe
> it
> is 98% or more on the hotel end as several times they called me that
> Citrix
> is down, but they can't get to Google either. The hotel doesn't have the
> greatest infrastructure, they have 31 Linksys 802.11g access points on the
> first and third floor of a hotel with about 200 rooms, no true wired
> connection is available. The pipe to the Internet is just 3 meg download,
> 384 upload.
> The head user in this location sent a message to our Managing Partner
> about
> how unreliable Citrix is. Fortunately, the Managing Partner uses Citrix
> extensively, and hasn't had a problem but I'm trying to do anything I can.
> The big bottleneck obviously is the hotel's Internet connection, my
> connection at home is better. Does anyone have any suggestions on how we
> might be able to get them a better experience? I'm looking into something
> like T-Mobile's PC cards, and we're seeing if there is office space we can
> rent, but apparently there isn't much available.
> We are on PS 4 Advanced on Windows 2000, soon will be switching to a
> Opteron
> 285 box running 2003.
>
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