Sentence examples for distant server from inspiring English sources

At one of the stations, a student was logged into software on a distant server, working on math problems at her own pace.

Most service providers offer a tool so their customers can test the performance inside the network, the last link in the long chain from a computer on the desk to a service provider's distant server.

WHEN you sit down to play a "massively multiplayer online" (MMO) game such as "World of Warcraft" or enter a virtual world such as Second Life (pictured), your computer connects to a distant server which holds all the data needed to model the synthetic realm and to co-ordinate the actions of different players.

That is, the data might come from a distant server hosted in the Cloud.

This is far more radical an idea than just storing your word processing software on a distant server.

This is a far more radical idea than just storing your word-processing software on a distant server.

The 605 can browse the Internet, download audio and video from distant servers and even play back video from services like CinemaNow and YouTube.

The experience is present on my screen, in my mind, and in the dance of data between mobile device, GPS satellites, mobile networks and distant servers.

On Pingtest.net, the user's PC sends a small request to distant servers and then computes the average time to receive a response.

Called file hosting services, these online systems allow documents, images and files to be stored on distant servers rather than on a PC.

Last year, Amazon, Google and Apple rushed to introduce so-called cloud (or locker) systems, which let people store music files on distant servers for streaming or downloading to various devices.