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Joaquín M López Muñoz30-Jan-02 9:08
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Roger Wright30-Jan-02 5:05
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I've got an idea that's been rattling about my nearly vacant cranium for a while now, and I'd like to solicit some ideas here.

I have two locations, 10 km apart, running a text-based retail program using serial ports for communications. The two sites are run on separate serial concentrator chains. For the remote site, the signals leave the server at on a RS422 line at 1.5 Mbps, but are immediately throttled down to 56 kbps as they pass thru a DSU/CSU for transmission over a pair of wires to the remote DSU/CSU and into a concentrator for demultiplexing. The wires between periodically get dug up, which puts a bit of a kink into things at the other end.

Back at the main site, I have a separate WinNT server with a 2 Mbps wireless Internet connection and eight available serial ports. The thought is that I should be able to skip the wire connection completely by reading the serial data stream from the serial server with a port on the NT server, then construct a VPN over the Internet to the remote site, and from there out to the concentrator via a serial port on a machine there. It would immensely increase the speed of the data flow, and eliminate the risk from a drunken contractor on a backhoe. Plus it would save a bundle, since the wire between sites costs me $100/month, and the wireless connection is free (I trade roof space for antennas for service).

I think it would be an interesting project, but I'm curious whether anyone here has tried such a thing, or has any suggestions about how to approach it... One concern of mine is that the hardware approach we're using is, by design, near real-time, while an NT server is far from it. Would the latency be likely to make it fail? Is it a dumb idea from the getgo? Thoughts, anyone?
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