Chapter 11. Optimizing Bandwidth Utilization
Introduction
You can’t always expect your customer to have the same bandwidth as your office LAN. Huge numbers of people still use modem connections, and some use mobile GPRS devices with even lower connection speeds.
These customers will only buy your software if it works at a speed that is at least usable and does not frustrate them. Online services with slow loading times will infuriate casual Web users and drive away potential customers. Conversely, people will pay more for better performance. To give an example, VNC (www.realvnc.com) is free, under general public license (GPL), whereas client licenses for Microsoft Terminal Services (MTS) are certainly not free. Both pieces of software allow you ...
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