[H-GEN] Secure and low bandwidth X through wireless broadband.

[Russell Stuart]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 07:27 -0500, Paul Gearon wrote:
> If you're concerned about bandwidth, then don't use VNC.  It does  
> screen scraping, and sends rasterized images over the network.  There  
> are optimizing settings to reduce the area being scrapped, but it's  
> still a slow process.  It can even be slow on local networks.

Just to give a contrasting opinion I find VNC, or at least
the tighvnc variant, works well.  I use it over slow 
connections.  With the compression levels turned up it 
much faster than raw X - as in 1 second to display an
email with a picture attachment versus 60 seconds.

FreeNX hasn't been mentioned yet.  Nothing beats FreeNX for
speed when it comes at forwarding X connections.  But it 
crashes a bit too frequently for my tastes, and requires
persistence to get it running.

I have Debian packages for the latest versions of tightvnc
and FreeNX, if you need them.  They are available here:

  http://www.stuart.id.au/russell/files/debian