From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HKEKq-0001lD-Ma for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:50:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1MDn0sl015920; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:49:00 GMT Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1MDipOn011336 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:44:51 GMT Received: from out1.internal (unknown [10.202.2.149]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B1E1CB671 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:46:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by out1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:46:17 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: 0euDRZYU8+EmVYfGWmkLYU431s38E1NPiWypMq/nID5y 1172151977 Received: from [192.168.31.10] (cpe-76-185-203-114.tx.res.rr.com [76.185.203.114]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB8518268 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:46:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X-Forwarding over wireless From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10702220506w661b3b0ex225cf40a7df6281e@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10702210645u17c0c2f6re191906ba6de3fc2@mail.gmail.com> <1172080487.31460.4.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <49bf44f10702220506w661b3b0ex225cf40a7df6281e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:44:49 -0600 Message-Id: <1172151889.19225.25.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 105e98bd-ba69-4326-aa7e-d8d920b7bd67 X-Archives-Hash: bb641c15627265dac950137fd8328217 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list