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