[ILUG] low bandwidch X forwarding protocol?

[Niall O Broin]

On 1 Nov 2006, at 10:25, Barry Flanagan wrote:

> fuzzix wrote:
>> Niall O Broin wrote:
>>> I'd certainly suggest giving NX a try, in either its free or payware
>>> incarnations.
>>
>> Any idea how it compares to TightVNC? I use that over DSL (256k  
>> upload)
>> and find it quite usable.
>>
>
> No comparison in my experience. Using NX over a DSL line is very much
> like using a local X display. Really.

I'll second that, because I'm not sure I was emphatic enough about it  
in the first place. I used a KDE session with NX using DSL and it  
really was hjust about as good as a local display. I qualify it with  
"just about" because it has to be a little less snappy, but it really  
isn't visible. I first saw an X client displayed on a server a  
continent away something more than 15 years ago in Harvard, and that  
was very impressive - my first impressions of NX were similarly  
"Ohmigod how can they do that!"

I regularly use VNC sessions of various sorts, and I'd even say that  
NX over DSL is better than VNC on a LAN.

Enough already, unless somebody from NX wants to pay me :-)



Niall

P.S. I REALLY wanted to correct the typo in the subject, but I bet  
it'd break threading for some people.