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On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:06 -0800, Grant 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. Wifi, as you know is relatively slow. Even if you |
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have 802.11G which is "rated" for 54Mbps you never actually get 54MBbps. |
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If you run an access point in hybrid b/g mode, that slows it down even |
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more. If you have WEP/WPA encryption that slows it down even more. If |
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you tunnel through ssh encryption that slows it down even more. Add |
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that to the fact that wireless connections are notoriously unreliable |
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and your typical X11 app is *very* chatty then I would not expect |
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gigabit-ethernet performance. |
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