Hey Jeff, Sounds like you are looking for good gui remote access over
ssh? I use FreeNX as the server and use NoMachine's client and
now also use OpenNX since it works well with lion-10.7. The access over
broadband internet is just like sitting at the computer--works great to
manage remote servers running Edubuntu/ltsp. I hear it is even a decent experience over dial-up. So, while I don't know what the compression is, it must be pretty good to work this well in this situation. If you have more
questions, let me know.<br>
David<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@wildcoast.com">jeff@wildcoast.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I don't have easy access to a server at the minute, and not sure where the settings are anyway; but I've been wondering about this for a while and am just hoping that someone can point me in the right direction:</div>
<div><br></div><div>A week or so ago when I was onsite at a school, I ran a binary tcpdump to get an indication of network usage with approximately 12 thin clients working.</div><div><br></div><div>It wasn't a very precisely measured test or anything, but the server sent/received a Gigabyte of traffic in about a couple of minutes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So I'm just wondering whether SSH compression is enabled by default or not? And if it is, whether there's any way to tweak it?</div><div><br></div><div>Also, it occurs to me that SSH compression would have to be lossless, by nature. So I'm wondering if there's any way to get something like tight-vnc working; or whether we should try a lightweight X desktop like XFCE?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm not really happy about the performance, compared to terminal server, for ex, or even the old Fedora/Gnome K12-LTSP we upgraded from.</div><div><br></div><div>Insights and pointers appreciated. Flames > /dev/null</div>
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