Re: Net Bandwith: X-Server vs PC Client/Server

rickert_at_cco.caltech.edu (Keith Warren Rickert) writes:

>In <SBCHANIN.94Jan9162215_at_raisin-nut.ai.mit.edu> sbchanin_at_ai.mit.edu (Steve Chanin) writes:
 

>>Does anyone have information on how these two architectures will compare with
>>respect to bandwidth requirements?
 

>Unless your client does a _lot_ of its own processing, and thus needs
>to move a lot of data with little change in the display,
>the X client will almost certainly have higher bandwidth usage.
>There are good reasons for using X11 (such as, in this case,
>being able to use your application on a wider variety of platforms),
>but lowering bandwidth isnt really one of them.

It really depends on exactly what type of applications are being run and how they are used. The description is not that detailed.

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