On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 08:46:08PM +0300, 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?
Even another ISP may not help so much. I have Verizon FIOS and am based on the East Coast. There's a 92ms delay to reach my linode, in Fremont. Any message the X client sends to the server and then waits for a reply would have approx 200ms round trip time. I doesn't take long before these message delays add up to a real long delay.
Even my local East Coast Panix v-colo has a 15ms delay; that's a lot smaller but it still adds to the time it takes to open an application; especially one as complicated as firefox which may make thousands of requests.
Hence FreeNX which, effectively, runs an X server on your remote machine and sends screen data back to your local machine. In this case the round trip times are massively reduced to effectively "local machine" speeds.