On Jan 13, 2012 3:59 PM, "Thomas Goirand" <z...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 01/13/2012 10:03 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I am surprised NX is even considered for WAN usage. Our in-house tests > > showed that NX has a noticeable usability impact as soon as the latency > > reaches 10ms, while the figure goes up to 30ms for VNC - which is > > currently the only serious solution for WAN links. > > > Then maybe you should get out of your house! :) > > Seriously, have you ever tried using VNC across continents, with a > *very* slow link? It's simply too slow, it takes ages to display a simple > window. > > I really don't understand why you wrote that VNC is more usable > than NX. To me, it's simply never the case.
Hmm, I cannot claim much professional experience, but I am using tigervnc from europe to access interactive 3d rendering apps on a maschine in the US and I am quite happy. In fact the display delay is only little more than the connection latency (about 120ms for me). Michael
