AutoCAD over WAN

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by CADNET, Sep 14, 2004.

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    CADNET Guest

    I'm taking on a new project for an engineering company based in NY. They just opened an office in Chicago and would like the 2 offices to be seamless. They are going to use VoIP and a VPN (T-1 speed) to connect the 2 offices. My question is what is the best way to handle the AutoCAD drawings? People from either office could be working on any file at different times of the day. Anyone else had to deal with this?

    Also its been since R14 that I've actually setup a network environment, What has changed since then?
     
    CADNET, Sep 14, 2004
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    Mark Evinger Guest

    Opening cad files over a T1 can be *painfully* slow. We are moving to a
    replicated data system from Availl to push all the data on the server to all
    the branch offices automatically and in real-time.

    http://www.availl.com

    Mark Evinger


    just opened an office in Chicago and would like the 2 offices to be
    seamless. They are going to use VoIP and a VPN (T-1 speed) to connect the 2
    offices. My question is what is the best way to handle the AutoCAD drawings?
    People from either office could be working on any file at different times of
    the day. Anyone else had to deal with this?
    What has changed since then?
     
    Mark Evinger, Sep 14, 2004
    #2
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    John Schmidt Guest

    I agree with Mark - drawings over a T1 are painfully slow. T1 is
    1.5Mbit/sec, so opening even a 1.5M drawing takes close to 10 seconds just
    to get the data, even under ideal conditions, and that's if you're the only
    one transferring data. If you have multiple users or large Xrefs - forget
    it. And by the time you add all the other networking overhead, it can really
    get slow.

    If you're working with relatively small drawings, it may not be so bad. And
    small stuff such as normal docs, spreadsheets, email, etc. should pose no
    problem.

    John

    just opened an office in Chicago and would like the 2 offices to be
    seamless. They are going to use VoIP and a VPN (T-1 speed) to connect the 2
    offices. My question is what is the best way to handle the AutoCAD drawings?
    People from either office could be working on any file at different times of
    the day. Anyone else had to deal with this?
    What has changed since then?
     
    John Schmidt, Sep 15, 2004
    #3
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