We have booted a diskless octopus terminal (well, with our terminal software in the terminal, I admit) while at greece, keeping the files at madrid. RTTs were >150ms. A little bit slower than at home (which is a little bit slower than a direct lan attach).
As far as our experience goes (which is not much), latency is the real problem. On 9/13/07, Anthony Sorace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i agree my experience isn't relevant to john's problem. his ping times > are about 1/5 or less of what mine were. more significantly, the fact > that his significant delay happens before authentication points > towards something in the auth process (factotum+secstore). > > in general, though: networks have gotten faster, but not terribly much > quicker. there's been no significant change in latency between > machines i've been paying attention to in various parts of the US > (mostly east coast) and western europe (mostly London) for the past 4 > years. the bandwidth (and bandwidth/$) have both improved > significantly. > > (this is not true for asia, especially india, where i've seen very > significant improvements) >
