Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 19:35, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
Which shows it's working... but painfully slowly. Bandwidth and especially latency is killing you.
Other than getting a new ISP, is there anything that I can do about the latency?
I can smoothly run X over the Internet to the servers I look after only because I myself have a 10mbit/10mbit connection and the servers are either on 50mbit or 100mbit connections but that is not true for all X clients. X can require an incredible amount of bandwidth to be smooth.
The bandwidth isn't so much a problem with X as latency - the protocol does a lot of synchronous handshakes that wait for a round trip before continuing to the next step. NX is much better because there is a proxy display to avoid waiting for the remote handshake with caching on both ends.