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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!acsu.buffalo.edu!nvp From: nvp@cs.buffalo.edu (Nathan V Patwardhan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xaps over ppp connection (Q) Date: 10 Oct 1996 18:47:04 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 26 Message-ID: <53jgb8$rk8@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> References: <325CF4EC.57A3@foto.infi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: armstrong.cs.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: nvp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tom Misiak (misiak@foto.infi.net) wrote: : I then attempted to start a simple xapp to see what : happens. I executed xcalc& in the telnet term. After : about 45 secs I got the outline of xcalc but the app : never became usable (had the frame but nothing in it...) Woah boy... : Any ideas what could be causing this problem? 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. Personally, I'd try a better option like an ISDN or something _much_ faster --- probably _at least_ 57,600. To prove my point, try xbiff. Send yourself mail. xbiff updates quickly. xbiff is small. xbiff is friend of phone line. HTH Nate nvp@nfic.com