On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> More likely it's latency. Most "modern" X apps seem to require >> a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of >> a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet link, >> even if the bandwidth is the same: > > Where do you get that number from?
My Wifi network often has latencies of 50-100ms, while typical wired latencies are 1-5ms. I assumed that's typical. It could be there's something screwy in my WAP -- it does lock up not infrequently. > I can not imagine any reason why wifi should have alatency one > or two levels of magnitude higher than wires. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I've got to get at these SNACK CAKES to NEWARK visi.com by DAWN!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list