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We connected pairs of Windows computers on various 10M bit/sec Ethernet subnets and used various firewalls from Sonic Systems and Netgear. We also used dial-up 56K bit/sec modems over analog lines. We used a variety of Windows Millennium Edition, 2000 and 98 machines, along with a Mac Performa for VNC's Mac client. PCs ranged from 700-MHz Pentium IIIs to 75-MHz Pentiums and with installed RAM ranging from 16M to 128M bytes. We looked at security features implemented, crispness of display, file transfer throughput and responsiveness of the remotely controlled host.
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Strom is the author of numerous product reviews, essays, opinion pieces and feature stories for dozens of computer trade publications and technical Web sites. His second book, Home Networking Survival Guide, will be published this fall by Osborne/McGraw Hill books. He can be reached at david@strom.com.
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