Minimize delivery failures

[Mike King]

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My company has three buildings with a network connecting them between. One
of the buildings is outside of the country (in the Dominican Republic). I
would like for a program had I have built to be able to communicate with a
web service running in one of the other two buildings. I have started some
basic testing of the reliability of the connection to the DR building by
pinging a server with different buffers sizes (ping -n 100 -l <buffer size>
<server name>). I have noticed smaller buffers are more reliable. So my
question is, can I compress portions of my soap message to minimize the
chance of failed deliveries?

[kpg]

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I accidently posted this message to the wrong newsgroup, so if you monitor
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework I am sorry?

My company has three buildings with a network connecting them between.
One
of the buildings is outside of the country (in the Dominican Republic). I
would like for a program had I have built to be able to communicate with a
web service running in one of the other two buildings. I have started
some
basic testing of the reliability of the connection to the DR building by
pinging a server with different buffers sizes (ping -n 100 -l <buffer
size>
<server name>). I have noticed smaller buffers are more reliable. So my
question is, can I compress portions of my soap message to minimize the
chance of failed deliveries?

Just off the cuff I would say if you are losing data that is a problem.
Compressing just treats the symptoms. Look into why large buffers
are being corrupted and address that issue.

kpg

[Mike King]

From what I have been told is the lines in the Dominican Republic are not
that good. I used the ping command to check the reliability of the
connection and it does not look that good. The ping command uses the ICMP
protocol which does not guarantee packet delivery as opposed to the TCP
protocol. I am hoping if I minimize the amount of packets sent then I can
minimize the likelihood of packets being resend. I'm going to use TCP/IP so
I can guarantee message delivery.
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"Mike King" <em*****@excite.com> wrote in message
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I accidently posted this message to the wrong newsgroup, so if you monitor microsoft.public.dotnet.framework I am sorry?

My company has three buildings with a network connecting them between.
One
of the buildings is outside of the country (in the Dominican Republic). I would like for a program had I have built to be able to communicate with a web service running in one of the other two buildings. I have started
some
basic testing of the reliability of the connection to the DR building by
pinging a server with different buffers sizes (ping -n 100 -l <buffer
size>
<server name>). I have noticed smaller buffers are more reliable. So my question is, can I compress portions of my soap message to minimize the
chance of failed deliveries?

Just off the cuff I would say if you are losing data that is a problem.
Compressing just treats the symptoms. Look into why large buffers
are being corrupted and address that issue.

kpg

[Mike King]

The connection might not be at bad. I pinged my web hosting company
(located in the US) which is over a thousand miles from where I am and it
has the same amount of timeouts (10%) as our Dominican Republic connection,
and I have not seen any problems when fetching web pages my web server. I
just never knew that there was so many non-delivered packets over the
internet. I thought with the modern internet we have resolved these issues
a long time ago.
"Mike King" <em*****@excite.com> wrote in message
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From what I have been told is the lines in the Dominican Republic are not
that good. I used the ping command to check the reliability of the
connection and it does not look that good. The ping command uses the ICMP
protocol which does not guarantee packet delivery as opposed to the TCP
protocol. I am hoping if I minimize the amount of packets sent then I can
minimize the likelihood of packets being resend. I'm going to use TCP/IP so I can guarantee message delivery.