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 1HKFzF-00042i-S1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:36:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1MFWnpZ011893; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:32:49 GMT Received: from smtp1.iway.na (smtp1.iway.na [196.44.136.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1MFOjwi001576 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:24:46 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na (vscan.iway.na [196.44.136.13]) by smtp1.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4C0649F for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:24:41 +0200 (WAST) Received: from mx2.iway.na (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vscan.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE015B7450 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:24:42 +0200 (WAST) Received: from [192.168.1.10] ([41.205.128.26]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id JDVET700.XIV for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:24:43 +0200 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:24:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <49bf44f10702210645u17c0c2f6re191906ba6de3fc2@mail.gmail.com> <1172151889.19225.25.camel@blackwidow.nbk> In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702221724.16471.uwix@iway.na> X-Archives-Salt: 03bd2f1b-e9cd-4b41-bbf0-edd9c9751a67 X-Archives-Hash: 92d69461e1f7f05d881178aed2dcbc34 On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: > More likely it's latency. Most "modern" X apps seem to require > a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of > a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet link, > even if the bandwidth is the same: Where do you get that number from? I can not imagine any reason why wifi should have alatency one or two levels of magnitude higher than wires. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list