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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xaps over ppp connection (Q) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 06:00:26 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL / Lines: 19 Message-ID: <53kr1s$pkt@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <325CF4EC.57A3@foto.infi.net> <53jgb8$rk8@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.107.196.155 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 nvp@cs.buffalo.edu (Nathan V Patwardhan) wrote: >Yes, better keep an extinguisher by yer desk ... you're setting the phone >lines on fire. :) Seriously, don't forget that you are using a modem, and >are transmitting an image/bitmap over the net. I don't think so: xcalc is a small program sending rectangles and text to be drawn, not images/bitmaps. 28.8 is actually sufficient though painfully slow, but using 28.8 kb/s signalling does not mean data goes through the line at this speed. The line may be noisy, the I/O card may overload the CPU with I/O interrupts. What's more, modem data compression sould be disabled, and IP header compression enabled. But that's only part of the solution. The proper solution for running X on serial is to use a specialized protocols, like Xpress, not straight X on PPP.