[vox-tech] Exported X-windows - bandwidth req's

Rod Roark vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 19 May 2003 16:02:10 -0700


Try TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/.  It's semi-usable
over dialup.

-- Rod

On Monday 19 May 2003 03:39 pm, Richard Burkhart wrote:
> Would anyone happen to know how much bandwidth is needed to export windows
> from machine to machine?
>
> Specifically - I'm helping out a family member who'se fresh-to-linux ...
> problems are coming up ... trying to talk them through it is becoming a
> headache.  I'd like to go into Mozilla and figure out directly where the
> configuration is going wrong.
>
> But would I be out of my mind to try and do this between a pair of 56k
> modems (which of course won't upload any faster than 33,6)?
>
> How much information IS sent between machines for exported windows anyway?
>
> Danke