From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X-Forwarding over wireless
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:44:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172151889.19225.25.camel@blackwidow.nbk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10702220506w661b3b0ex225cf40a7df6281e@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:06 -0800, Grant wrote:
> I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead
> of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it
> feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via
> X-Forwarding.
>
Could be bandwidth. Wifi, as you know is relatively slow. Even if you
have 802.11G which is "rated" for 54Mbps you never actually get 54MBbps.
If you run an access point in hybrid b/g mode, that slows it down even
more. If you have WEP/WPA encryption that slows it down even more. If
you tunnel through ssh encryption that slows it down even more. Add
that to the fact that wireless connections are notoriously unreliable
and your typical X11 app is *very* chatty then I would not expect
gigabit-ethernet performance.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 14:45 [gentoo-user] X-Forwarding over wireless Grant
2007-02-22 8:09 ` Jakob
[not found] ` <1172080487.31460.4.camel@blackwidow.nbk>
2007-02-22 13:06 ` Grant
2007-02-22 13:44 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2007-02-22 14:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2007-02-22 15:05 ` Grant
2007-02-22 15:26 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-02-22 15:26 ` Grant Edwards
2007-02-22 15:24 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-02-22 15:49 ` Grant Edwards
2007-02-22 17:59 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
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