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

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2007-02-22, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> 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?

I've never directly compared the them, but I've seen posts by
others saying they've have had better luck with vnc or nx on
high latency links.

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Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow!  I am having FUN... I
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