On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 19:38 +0100, Doofus wrote: > michael wrote: > > >I'm trying to weight up whether monthly d/load caps by various ISPs > >would restrict me. (Firstly I'm assuming when they say 1Gb they mean > >1000*1024 bytes and not bits?) More importantly, what's the best way to > >track amount of data downloaded per session? For anybody that's > >interested the main thing I'll be doing is running xterms on remote > >machines pointed back to mine at home but I've not idea how much traffic > >X involves. > > > >Thanks! > > > > 1GBytes/month (at least I would certainly hope so... ;-) > > X is a bit of a BW monster but a few xterms shouldn't be too bad. I > realise that's not a very quantitative answer though. I've been in a > similar situation recently and found that the ISP in question were > prepared to swap a capped 2GB service for an uncapped 1GB (same price) > if the former should prove inadequate.
Unfort it'll prob be also a couple of GUIs (evolution and emacs). As you said a way of quantifying this would be good (eg I can do a 'normal' hours work on my current (uncapped!) ISP connection then multiple it up... if I knew how to count the amount of data d/loaded...) > Regardless of all this you may want to look at the Xvnc packages which > provide an excellent solution to limited bandwidth. I've only used VNC to connect a XP machine to (view on) a Linux box but I guess you're implying vnc for linux-linux reduces X traffic? Thanks M > > -- Michael Bane Atmospheric Physics Group University of Manchester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
