On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 08:32 -0500, Brian Beck wrote: > Richard Bos wrote: > > >I'm would like to use the ltsp in combination with wireless clients. I have > >some questions about that which I did not find answered in the wiki neither > >in the mailinglist archives. > > > >I found some promising emails telling that wireless in combination with > >notebooks works ;) > > > >My questions: > >- what is a good acces point unit (brand, vendor) to use. It is for a > >maximum of 16 clients. Will any acces point or wireless router work? > > > >- What is a good and known working wireless nic? Same as above, will any > >wireless nic work, or only some? > > > >- Related, but probably more difficult to answer; what is a good and known > >working nic (pcmcia) for a notebook? Xircom does not work, but other pcmcia > >cards? > > > > > I would be very careful when attempting to use LTSP over a Wireless > link. In addition to potential connection problems, you will have very > serious bandwidth problems. Maintaining an 800x600 screen over a > constant 100Mbps connection is difficult enough; dropping the speeds to > 11Mbps (802.11b) would be all but impossible and 54Mbps (802.11g) would > be very difficult. Feel free to try, but I have serious doubts about > the potential for such implementations.
This'll also be in part, a matter of how close the thin client is to the access point - with dense walls making things slower than thin air. VNC might help a lot with that: http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/vnc.html NX might help still more: http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/NX-notes.html NX claims to be able to give comfortable performance over a dialup modem. I just started experimenting with it over the weekend, via a DSL line, and I'm liking it. -But-, Wifi+LTSP doesn't sound like a particularly secure combination unless you do some form of tunneling.
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