On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Robert Snyder wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:02:45 -0400 (EDT), Eben King
> <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> >
> > > As I understand it, X was designed from the ground up to run over a slow
> > > mainframe-based net, like IBM Token-Ring 4Mbps LAN or maybe a 9600 baud
> > > hard-line WAN.
> >
> > I think a 9600 bps link would have at least 1/9600 s = 0.104 ms latency.
> > (Probably higher of course.) Pinging a 802.11b-connected XP laptop gives
> > average 160 ms, for a one-way trip time of 80 ms. Not 750 times greater
> > as the numbers would indicate, but still a lot.
> >
> I just pinged my server which runs on 802.11b from my latpop running
> win2k wiht 802.11b. average latency is 2ms
Maybe it depends what's happening on the other end.
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