AutoCAD over WAN

[CADNET]

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?

[Mark Evinger]

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


"CADNET" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
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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?

[John Schmidt]

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

"CADNET" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
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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?