[Wylug-discuss] eeepc show and tell tonight anyone?

[Colin May]

On 14 Jan 2008, at 14:19, Gary Stainburn wrote:

> As I said above, I plan on using one on the NatEx Leeds<-> Kings X  
> service
> over WIFI, using ssh with X forwarding to access my systems at  
> work.  I'll be
> doing very little work on the box itself.

Time to delurk a little .. !

My general experience of GNER wifi is when I used to pay for it and  
expense it on my trips to the great smoke for work related fun and  
games - at the time it was mostly aimed at people who are using  
corporate stuff like Web Outlook or Outlook itself.

Using SSH on the train is a painful exercise because of the RTT  
between you, the trains server, the uplink, the trip out to sweden  
(which is where your connection is actually broken out onto the  
internet), to your server and back again.  Adding the additional  
bandwidth requirement of X on top of this even via a potentially  
compressed ssh tunnel will make it painfully unuseable.

I doubt NatEx have upgraded the service since taking over from GNER  
and all they've done is switched the billing model about a bit to  
make it free for everyone.  This of course means that more people  
will be using the on-train bandwidth so as usage goes up, bandwidth  
goes down and the pain of using it goes up further!

I generally stick with a USB 3G Vodafone dongle now for connectivity  
on my Mac - although I am led to believe these work happily under the  
EeeeeeeeeeeeePC via PPP/USB etc.

Colin.