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On Monday 11 December 2006 16:39, Ben Goodger wrote: > On 11/12/06, Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > There simply isn't time to send company data to and from a central > > > server with a national company when each of 800 branches is making > > > 3,000 transactions a day. Broadband simply cannot cope. > > > > 3000 transactions a day and broadband cant cope?- you seem to have major > > league bloatware already! One company I worked for did 10 times that > > using EDI and dial up - one phone line! > > Er, 2.4 million transactions daily on a 56k line? > Remember, the 3000 quoted was per branch. 800 branches means 2,400,000 > transactions per day, hence 27 transactions per second on average and, > presuming a transaction exceeds 5kB in and out, the line could not cope > even with a sophisticated queuing system. Type in haste regret in leisure - no we did 30,000 transactions - EDI was a few hundred bytes at most and even using Kermit (yes really) you could quite happily drag them in from the PAD. But then if you pad them out using PDF you could reduce that to maybe one a day on a phone line..... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html