filePro Printing over a Satellite

[Kenneth Brody]

"Brian K. White" wrote:
> 
> DataDoIt wrote:
> > *  I've most recently have worked with a printer that uses Satellite,
> > with a remote graphics designer on broadband attempting to send print
> > jobs directly to a printer behind the Satellite.  We're finding that
> > large jobs (1Mb+) will almost always time out.  That's printing to
> > the printer via static IP and opening the TCP port on the firewall.
> 
> That sounds more like someone's mtu or mru isn't set right.  A print job
> shouldn't care about latency, it's just a file trasfer like ftp or http.
> 
> Then again, if that was your problem, then +1M ftp's would fail too, and
> presumably they are not or you'd surely have noticed.

When I had satellite, I would notice that uploads would go in bursts,
with long delays between.

For example, an ftp upload would send several hundred K in a few seconds,
and then stop for 10 to 40 seconds before continuing.  What rate the
receiving side was getting, I can't say, but if it too were coming in
bursts, I can see how some protocols would time out.

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