[wallinbl]

I'm about to get a PowerBook. I'd like to have the larger screen of the 15", but I'm disappointed that I can't get Airport Extreme for it. I think the 1024x768 of the 12" will be too small for me.

Does anyone have any experience with using RDC (MS Terminal Server) over Airport vs Airport Extreme? I use it over 100MBit all the time, and that's nice and fast. I'm really curious about the speed difference of 11 vs 54 (and the additional latency of wireless).

I'm going to be doing coding, so delays will be very annoying (but, so will 1024x768).

[Cadaver]

Turn off the eye candy in Win XP, and it'll work reasonably well.
You could easily simulate 802.11b speeds by knocking your wired ethernet down to 10Mbit and seeing how you like RDC that way.

At home, I can control my WinXP PC from my TiBook over AirPort, and it works fairly well. You can tell you're not sitting at the computer physically, but it stills works fine for what I do at least.

[OpenStep]

I;ve used it with regular Airport and it is totally acceptable. Sometimes it gets a little laggy if I'm doing 3 things at once thru TS but overall connecting to a .net server and doing remote admin stuff works great.

[wallinbl]

Originally posted by Cadaver:
You could easily simulate 802.11b speeds by knocking your wired ethernet down to 10Mbit and seeing how you like RDC that way.

There is considerably more latency with wireless. I run at 10Mbit at home anyway (I've had this hub for years and years). It works well for me at 10, but my concerns are latency and the fact that 11Mbit is optimal, but 5.5 is more likely.

[GENERAL_SMILEY]

I use RDC over airport extreme, it seems about as fast as Ethernet, admittedly I only really use it to reboot the server - seems no more laggy etc...

[JohnM15141]

Your typical broadband internet connection is 1.5MBS under ideal conditions while Airport Extreme is 54MBS. Even under the worse conditions AirPort Extreme will get you 2MBS which is still faster than broadband.

[wallinbl]

Originally posted by JohnM15141:
Your typical broadband internet connection is 1.5MBS under ideal conditions while Airport Extreme is 54MBS. Even under the worse conditions AirPort Extreme will get you 2MBS which is still faster than broadband.

I'm not concerned with the speed of my Internet connection. I'm using RDC on a LAN.

[JohnM15141]

Originally posted by wallinbl:
I'm not concerned with the speed of my Internet connection. I'm using RDC on a LAN.

Oops

I didn't read this thread carefully, Sorry