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

[Michael T. Dean]

Dylan R. Semler wrote:

>Nick Gomez wrote:
>
>>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.
>>    
>>
>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.
>
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.

Mike