Stephen Harris wrote:
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.
Are there any advantages to running FreeNX over vncserver? Does it perform better?
Nataraj