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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18807)	4/28/1998 11:07:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 24154

I told you, the band with problem is the bottleneck. Now the calculations are done realtime, the delay and design of an HMTL interface (with over 400 interconnected inputs) would be a hassle for the end user who would not be able to have access to the custom the data API, and would have to wait for each and every one of several thousand calculations to individually bounce back adn forth from teh server. First of all, it's spelled bandwidth. Second of all, the problem you are talking about has nothing to do with bandwidth, but with other, mostly latency-related issues. Depending upon the amount of user-interactivity required, Internet latency can be a big issue. If the data is dealt with primarily in a read-only fashion by the end-user, the latency issues are not as important, as long as client-side cacheing is handled well. However, if they are constantly making local data changes that require recalcs, then latency becomes an issue and it may be preferrable to do the calculations locally.

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18807)	4/29/1998 1:49:00 AM
From: nommedeguerre	Respond to of 24154

Reggie, >>I told you, the band with problem is the bottleneck. >>People would much rather have one 6mb download (less than 1 minute on a corporate T1 - which is where the audience would be) than play the waiting game every time a parameter is changed. Your target audience has a T1 line and there is a bandwidth bottleneck on sending them data. Are you sending live TV broadcasts along with the results? If any product can bring a T1 line to its knees, it must come from MSFT. >>the delay and design of an HMTL interface (with over 400 interconnected inputs) Maybe the user interface suffers from too many GOTO's in the VisualBasic code. You are right, maybe you cannot do your app real-time. Cheers, Norm