[mythtv-users] Ever use VNC? I find it really useful.

[Dylan R. Semler]

Michael T. Dean wrote:

>Dylan R. Semler wrote:
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>>Nick Gomez wrote:
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>>>I'm running Gentoo on an amd64 at home and I connect through my 
>>>companies firewall, over the internet and then through my home 
>>>firewall. My home broadband connection is limited to 300 kbs upstream 
>>>and I still have a pretty responsive desktop. Although I can't watch a 
>>>video stream, I can do just about anything else. Mostly it's like I'm 
>>>sitting in front of my home PC.
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>>300 kbs upload?! man, what service provider do you have.  Comcast here 
>>caps everything at 40 or 60 kbs upload, i can't do anything remotely.
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>You sure you're using the same units?  512kbps (kilobits per second) 
>works out to about 45KB/s (kilobytes per second) actual throughput.  40 
>to 60kbps is about equivalent to a dialup modem's downstream bandwidth, 
>so it sounds awful low for a cable system's upstream bandwidth.
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Well you may be on to something.  I was speaking in terms of KB/s, I 
guess I assumed Nick was as well the way he described it as like sitting 
in front of his home PC, because it certainly isn't like that for me.  
Sorry for the confusion/wasting of the time.