[linrad] Linrad for Windows

[w3sz <comcast.net; w3sz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, All,

Those of you with a long memory will recall that several years ago [late  
2002 or early 2003] I wanted to use Linrad [Linux version, of course]  
remotely but was stymied by its use of svgalib for graphics.  Svgalib is a  
local graphics solution, and so that meant that while one could run Linrad  
remotely, one couldn't see the screen at the remote location.  A network  
workaround was found and made a part of Linrad by Leif, but it was less  
than ideal to use in practice.  This was definitely NOT Leif's fault, but  
just a consequence of the environment surrounding Linrad in Linux. The  
problem was basically that if anything failed at the remote end or in the  
link, since you couldn't see the remote Linrad screen on your monitor, you  
had to know the exact sequence of keystrokes that you needed to input to  
blindly re-establish the Linrad network link and get Linrad running in  
whatever mode you chose after restarting Linrad remotely with RealVNC.   
And not all of the functions were available remotely.  So it was usable,  
but not an ideal solution when the remote site was several miles away.   
There is nothing like driving 4 miles [times two] to do something that  
just takes a few seconds to do when one can see the screen ;)

A moment's thought would indicate that the Windows version of Linrad,  
which does not use svgalib, should work remotely with no problem as long  
as the link has enough bandwidth, and this is in fact the case.  I played  
yesterday with running Linrad for Windows remotely over a 4 mile Wi-Fi  
link and it worked fine.  RealVNC did a good job of running Linrad for  
Windows remotely, and I used TeamSpeak to send the audio across the link.   
I let things run for several hours and there were no hangups or problems.   
Even resizing Linrad screen objects remotely was no problem.  There was no  
indication of any more audio latency over the wireless link with TeamSpeak  
than I experienced on the wired network at home, even though I also had  
two video channels running across the link at the same time [constant  
ipcamera monitoring for security].

So if you want to run Linrad remotely, Linrad for Windows makes it easy!

I also tried Speak Freely for the remote audio channel over the network at  
home, and it worked OK.  But I didn't use it over the 4 mile link, and so  
I can't comment on that.  There may be better network audio solutions than  
the ones I tried, but TeamSpeak worked fine for me, and both TeamSpeak and  
Speak Freely were simple to install and get running.

The link is an 802.11b link using a Senao wireless bridge at each end.  It  
has been running for about 14 months; before that I used some D-Link  
hardware that was TERRIBLE and gave lousy link performance.

73,

Roger
W3SZ

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Roger Rehr
W3SZ
http://www.nitehawk.com/w3sz/

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