If you want to get the real skinny on all this, I suggest joining the LTSP or K12LTSP mailing lists, because questions about bandwidth and how to get the best response happen all the time and the issues are well known in 300+ client arenas.
I didn't mean to be insulting when I said "claims to know," but you obviously deal with a different kind of client configuration than what the author was writing about.
Anyway, on a 100Mb switched network, you can run uncompressed without any real problems up to 20-30 clients. The issue you faced was probably not processor speed (though I wouldn't mess with anything below 100MHz), but low video memory. Also, if you were doing a lot of compression, then the CPU DOES come into play, but, as I said, you don't need it over a LAN, anyway.
The simple solutionto bandwidth that most people use to keep their networks quiet is to put 20-30 thin clients behind a server, with shared homes and app servers (including rdesktop) outside. The traffic between the servers stays under control and the client can run uncompressed for maximum speed. Everyone is looking forward to NX being easily used, not for any compression, but because of the caching.
Anyway, I think you're hooked on VNC, and that may be your problem.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;) FWIW, I've been on thin clients for about 6 years now, since LTSP alpha<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.9 or something.
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Posted by: daengbo on April 15, 2005 08:57 PMI didn't mean to be insulting when I said "claims to know," but you obviously deal with a different kind of client configuration than what the author was writing about.
Anyway, on a 100Mb switched network, you can run uncompressed without any real problems up to 20-30 clients. The issue you faced was probably not processor speed (though I wouldn't mess with anything below 100MHz), but low video memory. Also, if you were doing a lot of compression, then the CPU DOES come into play, but, as I said, you don't need it over a LAN, anyway.
The simple solutionto bandwidth that most people use to keep their networks quiet is to put 20-30 thin clients behind a server, with shared homes and app servers (including rdesktop) outside. The traffic between the servers stays under control and the client can run uncompressed for maximum speed. Everyone is looking forward to NX being easily used, not for any compression, but because of the caching.
Anyway, I think you're hooked on VNC, and that may be your problem.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;) FWIW, I've been on thin clients for about 6 years now, since LTSP alpha<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.9 or something.
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