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On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na> wrote: |
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> On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> More likely it's latency. Most "modern" X apps seem to require |
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>> a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of |
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>> a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet link, |
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>> even if the bandwidth is the same: |
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> Where do you get that number from? |
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My Wifi network often has latencies of 50-100ms, while typical |
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wired latencies are 1-5ms. I assumed that's typical. It could |
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be there's something screwy in my WAP -- it does lock up not |
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infrequently. |
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> I can not imagine any reason why wifi should have alatency one |
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> or two levels of magnitude higher than wires. |
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