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On 2007-02-22, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> >> I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead |
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>> >> of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it |
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>> >> feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via |
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>> >> X-Forwarding. |
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>> > Could be bandwidth. |
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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: A 54M Wifi link may |
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>> actually have more bandwidth than a 10M wired Ethernet link, |
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>> but the lower latancy of the wired link will result in |
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>> better performance for some classes of applications. |
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> Do you think vnc or nx would be a significant improvement over |
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> x-forwarding? |
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I've never directly compared the them, but I've seen posts by |
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others saying they've have had better luck with vnc or nx on |
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high latency links. |
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Grant Edwards grante Yow! I am having FUN... I |
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at wonder if it's NET FUN or |
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visi.com GROSS FUN? |
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