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

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
> 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?

My Wifi network often has latencies of 50-100ms, while typical
wired latencies are 1-5ms.  I assumed that's typical.  It could
be there's something screwy in my WAP -- it does lock up not
infrequently.

> I can not imagine any reason why wifi should have alatency one
> or two levels of magnitude higher than wires.

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