Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

[Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>]

On 22 February 2007 17:05, 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.
> >
> > 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:  A 54M Wifi link may
> > actually have more bandwidth than a 10M wired Ethernet link,
> > but the lower latancy of the wired link will result in
> > better performance for some classes of applications.
>
> Do you think vnc or nx would be a significant improvement over
> x-forwarding?

nx definitely would. I saw a whole KDE session over an ISDN link - and it felt 
like local.

Uwe

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