I have a Pi at work and a dual atom file/cpu/auth/etc server at home. it works 
well, it takes a few seconds to authenticate but is quick once you are 
connected.

I boot from the pi's flash so I don't really have a terminal but I keep almost 
nothing in the Pi.

-Steve


> On 30 Sep 2016, at 21:20, Chris McGee <sirnewton...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> It would be interesting to hear how this works out in practice. The bandwidth 
> requirement is probably so low compared to typical traffic from a hotel, 
> compared even to smart phones.
> 
>> On Sep 30, 2016, at 3:49 PM, James A. Robinson <jim.robin...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Is anyone here using Plan 9 as a terminal to connect to remote CPU / File 
>> servers over the internet to get work done?
>> 
>> If I set up a small Plan 9 cluster at home, I'm thinking it'd be pretty neat 
>> to be able to connect to the network at home over the internet.
>> 
>> While I have a laptop and could put 9front on it, I also really like the 
>> thought of carrying around a little Raspberry Pi and portable keyboard/mouse 
>> as an alternative.  Sitting here in a cheap motel room, I realized that all 
>> the hotel rooms I've been in over the past few years have a decent flat 
>> screen television that takes an HDMI input and has had decent, if not 
>> amazing, WiFi to the internet.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
> 


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