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shmokes:
It's hard to say.  It would be incredibly strange to be on a slow link because on one side of the law campus is the School of Music's library, which has very fast non-Citrix access to the university network, and on the other side of the law campus is the Technology building where the IT guys for the entire campus (and the servers) reside.  Additionally the law campus is blanketed with Wi-Fi which is very fast.  But wireless access points don't exactly have the greatest range.  They are presumably plugged into the wired network on my campus and should therefore suffer from the same slow link.  I dislike bringing a computer to school, though, so I'm stuck using the Citrix computers in the library.

For what it's worth, the computers can stream web video just fine.  It's not exactly streaming HD video over the network, but it is streaming and it works fine.  The slowness comes in the form of the browser completely locking up about 20% of the time you tell it to do something new, i.e., click a link, hit play on a video, hit the back button.  It will just go completely unresponsive for like 5-10 seconds . . . completely locked up including the X button for closing the browser.

Otherwise, speed is a mixed back.  Clicking the start button often produces instantaneous results, and often the menu is preceded by 2 or 3 seconds of lag.

painterinfo:
Strange, hard if not impossible to diagnose it further without being on site. I have seen slow issues where the cache is too big, I clear it and set it to something smaller and get an immediate speed increase. Your intermittent speed is starting to sound like a server issue especially since streaming video works through citrix

Silas (son of Silas):
I used to work with Citrix daily, qualified CCA and CCEA, worked as a Citrix Solutions architect for HP for a number of years so have a reasonable amount of experience with it and now work for another company and am forced to use it when I work from home, and hate it.

It's very rare that anyone ever gets it quite right when designing a new Citrix solution. The problem is, usually Citrix solutions aren't designed, the are just installed and if they work but perform poorly, there is a reluctance to try and improve it.

Is Citrix worth the cost? Maybe,  for most of the customers I have designed for, yes absolutely. If the solution is a pile of cow dung then, no its not worth it, regardless of how much you manage to drive down the TCO of your deployed applications and desktop solutions.

If it's done right, with a 'scale out not up' approach to farm design, then users need never see a difference between a locally running application and one running over ICA, sadly tho' examples are few and far between.

ChadTower:


...all of which, of course, applies to any enterprise platform.   :cheers:

Silas (son of Silas):

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 05, 2010, 01:16:52 pm ---

...all of which, of course, applies to any enterprise platform.   :cheers:

--- End quote ---

True words  :cheers:

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