7.5. Bandwidth Requirement

While looking at remote access necessities, you have to estimate data transfer capacity needs and tolerances for the distinctive clients. This is imperative for arranging furthermore for suitably setting client desires. For instance, if salesmen need moment to-moment access to a business following framework furthermore as often as possible need to download 10MB record bundles to use for citations, you should clarify the constraints of modem speeds and phone or cell remote associations with diminish these clients' desires. On the other hand you can discover distinctive arrangements that are steady with the measure of transfer speed you can offer.

You can assess a specific application project's transmission capacity prerequisites by really measuring the measure of transfer speed that application uses. On the LAN, you can screen the measure of data being sent to a specific node that uses the application in the way it would be utilized remotely. You can quantify the data in various ways. For a Windows computer, you can run System Monitor or Performance Monitor on the client and take a gander at the network movement that the computer is devouring (see Figure 7.5). You can likewise quantify the volume of data from the server. For a Windows server, you can utilize Performance Monitor to determine bytes transmitted to and from the user. For a Novell server, you can utilize the console Monitor application and watch the quantity of data being sent and got by the user’s server association.

On the off chance that the transfer speed prerequisites of an application are basically excessively awesome, making it impossible to handle over the kind of remote association that you have accessible, (for example, a 33.6 Kbps modem association), you have to investigate different choices. These incorporate utilizing a remote control arrangement (talked about later in this section) or utilizing the application as a part of an alternate way. For instance, you may stack the application onto the remote PC instead of utilization it over the LAN. Additionally, maybe the client does not require the data to be upgraded so habitually, and you can set up a method whereby the client gets week by week data reports on a CD-R disk or an during the night download.

 

Figure 7.5.   Utilizing Windows System Monitor to take a glance at the transmission capacity that an application is utilizing

The ways that you can fulfil remote access necessities are for all intents and purposes boundless. Be that as it may, the key is to survey those requirements precisely and to work inventively, given your accessible or proposed remote access innovation.