[gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-22, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:06 -0800, Grant wrote: I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Grant
I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via X-Forwarding. Could be bandwidth. More likely it's latency. Most modern X apps seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: More likely it's latency. Most modern X apps seem to require a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet link, even if the bandwidth is the same: Where do you get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 February 2007 17:05, Grant wrote: I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via X-Forwarding. Could be bandwidth.

[gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-22, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via X-Forwarding. Could be bandwidth.

[gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: More likely it's latency. Most modern X apps seem to require a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet link, even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:49:42 + (UTC) Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: More likely it's latency. Most modern X apps seem to require a lot of round-trips between client and