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

[Michael T. Dean]

Dylan R. Semler wrote:

>Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>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.  
>  
>

He never said what his home PC is.  Perhaps it's a 486-SX/25.  ;)

>Sorry for the confusion/wasting of the time.
>

Happens to the best of us:  
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/

Mike