NX (nxserver-freeedition) uses way too much bandwidth

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SickThought · Post by **SickThought** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:37 pm

Hello

I searched around alot but couldn't find anything. I really need help with this:
I want to be able to access my desktop from school so I looked into NX. I tried installing the FreeNX-Server but I can't get it to work, even when doing everything mentioned in the gentoo-wiki.
So I tried out nxserver-freeedition and it seemed to work fine when testing localy. But when I try to connect over the internet it's veeery slow/unusable, even when using the modem-parameters (my connection at home is 384kbps down / 64kbps up). So to check how much bandwith it uses I made a ssh-connection to my router and forwarded/tunneled localport 7777 to my pc's ssh-port. I then connected to localhost port 7777 with modem-link parameters and watched the bandwidth usage with a desktop widget (KDE4-user). It constantly reported 20-50 KB/s (up and down of course as my pc was server and client at the same time). I'm pretty sure this is way too much for a modem.
Can anyone help me figure out why it consumes so much bandwidth?

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zhick henning # equery list nx
[ Searching for package 'nx' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] net-misc/nx-3.2.0-r2 (0)
[I--] [ ~] net-misc/nxclient-3.2.0.13 (0)
[I--] [  ] net-misc/nxnode-3.2.0-r3 (0)
[I--] [ ~] net-misc/nxserver-freeedition-3.2.0.16 (0)

kokoko3k · Post by **kokoko3k** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:24 pm

If it is not a typo, 64kbps (kbps and not kBps), then i doubt you will have a smooth experience

SickThought · Post by **SickThought** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:10 am

Hmm... I thought b = Bit and B = Byte?
Anyway I meant 384 Kilobit/s Downstream and 64 Kilobit/s upstream

kokoko3k · Post by **kokoko3k** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:19 am

yep , 64kbps are very low...

SickThought · Post by **SickThought** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:40 am

Well, it's ISDN-speed, and since I've read reports of NX being fluent with ISDN I expected this to be enough.
After all the NX-Client has a ISDN-option...
So the real question is: why does NX use ~50KB/s of bandwidth when I use it with the ISDN-connection-parameters?