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In article <9g659dFt8U2@mid.individual.net>,
Robert Klemme  <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 07:43 PM, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote:
> > In article<9g5n98F5upU1@mid.individual.net>,
> > Robert Klemme<shortcutter@googlemail.com>  wrote:
> 
> >> I have always found X11 across a network to be extremely slow and hence
> >> don't use it.  IMHO RDP is significantly more efficient especially for
> >> remote connections, VNC's protocol could be as well.
> >
> > There is that (the performance issue).  My experience has been that
> > over a fast local network, it's good enough for most applications,
> > though I seem to remember that there are exceptions (though not what
> > they are).  Over a not-so-fast network, yeah, it can be too slow to
> > be usable.
> 
> I think the last I tried remotely via X was Firefox.  It was awful even 
> though it was a LAN IIRC.

Hm!  It almost surely depends on the speed of the network; for me
Firefox over a local network works reasonably well.  Well, except
that X doesn't seem to have a way to forward sound.  Often that's
not a problem, but sometimes it is.  I wonder if there's some way
around that ....  well, probably not a question for this group.

[ snip ]

-- 
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer:  I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.

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