While the geekery is really really cool I also wonder if this method can be beaten with the best in video comepression. Extremely low bandwidth encoding perhaps

While the geekery is really really cool I also wonder if this method can be beaten with the best in video comepression. Extremely low bandwidth encoding perhaps provides better results (if you put cpu/gpu load aside), for example see this x265 example over 50 Kbit/s. http://wp.xin.at/archives/4020/comment-page-1 http://wp.xin.at/archives/4020/comment-page-1 People are watching Netflix in low quality in 100-200 Kbit/s. With the upcoming AV! (AOmedia Video 1) it gets even beter. Another avenue is Citrix/RDP connection work ok over 30-50 Kbit/s. Then there is the counterpart FreeRDP. Wouldn't FreeRDP be the preferred solution here, except then that Mosh solves the potential latency issue? With linux desktops running on low power clients already, why bother? Does it use less battery life so you can get 48 hours surfing the internet in the mountains or forest while the solar powered server runs at home?