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Suggestions for speed
- From: test524 at comcast dot net
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 05:18:35 +0000
- Subject: Suggestions for speed
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi all,
I'd like to solicit some suggestions for making my remote KDE session faster. I currently connect to a machine running Debian stable (woody) with SSH and X11 Port Forwarding. I'm connecting across an 802.11b wireless network, which is limited to 11Mbps.
I see from some previous posts that it appears I might do better with a 54 (or 108) Mbps network connection--that's definitely something to try.
What else, though, would people suggest to speed things up? (Windows redraw quite slowly.)
-Should I try XDMCP? Is it faster than port forwarding with SSH?
-Should I add more RAM to the Linux box? (It has 128MB with a PIII at 667 MHz.)
-Does the amount video memory on the Linux box matter? How about on the Windows machine (hard to change because it's a laptop...)?
I've tried ssh -C, but don't notice much of an improvement.
Thanks for any suggestions.