PS4 Thin Client Minimum specs

[paulovey]

Hi,

I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

I have just completed a large upgrade for a customer moving from Windows 2000 running Citrix Metaframe XP.

To Windows 2003 running Citrix PS4.

Many of the users are using thin clients, all the older client s running CE 2.12 are suffering from quite bad latency.

I have moved all critical servers to a 1GB backbone, and all clients connect at 100Mbps. I have also enabled Speed Screen Latency Reduction enabling both local text echo and local mouse feedback.

All servers have at least 3Gb memory in them.

But some users still suffer from bad latency, where even a average typist suffers from it. However if we move the user to a new thin client, they have no problems at all.

But this should not be the case, as no work is being done by the client.

So does anyone have any specs for the minimum and recommended specs for thin client machines running on Windows 2003 with PS4.

I have been looking, just not in the right place so far.

Thanks,

Paul

If aint broken, dont try n fix it!!!!!

 

[enigma99]

paulovey,
You would figure that the client would not have an impact on performance since all of the computing is done at the server level.....BUT!

I have seen older clients (fat or thin) cause performance issues.
Now a days, thin-clients are more efficient and optmized on how they handle the ICA/RDP traffic.

I've used Wyse's WTOS to deploy a desktop enviornment via Citrix and they work GREAT! No license for CE or XP and they were benchmarked as the highest performing ICA device (at that time...its probably changed by now).

I've also used HP's thin client with XP embedded to deploy published applications via Web Interface. They were very high performing as well.

I guess my point is anything you get now...is probably 10x better than what you currently have and should improve performance.

Look at Neoware, HP and Wyse.

Hope that helps.