Sun Ray 2FS bandwidth requirements

The main factor is the overall screen size and resolution, not the sunray model.

I have a 1g at my house with a single 24" LCD. Running over a cable modem (4-6mbps) with a cisco 831 provides very good performance. I've noticed that over a 10 minute perod, my average usage is around 70kbps. Thus a dual 24" setup would run around 140kbps as an average.

The key word here is average. I've seen my system burst up to the full pipe (4mbps) during times when i was performing things that required a lot of screen redraws (and performance suffered since I was maxing out my pipe) .

Also, if you think that sound is a good idea, note that it will add 2Mbps on top of the video bandwidth.

As a general rule, you can run dual 24" monitors over a fast (4Mbps+) broadband connection as long as your work load does not involve lots of full screen updates (spreasheets are good, watching movies is bad). If all you have is a 512kbps dsl line, I think that even a single 20" will prove to be frustrating at times (but still usable, depending on your definition of usable :-)

--john

segfaultcoredump at 2007-7-7 1:29:36 >