Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 19:35, Stephen Harris <lists at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com