> it's the round trip latency is the killer Yeah, my understanding is that NX mimicks the remote end locally and then translates the result and transmits that.

> it's the round trip latency is the killer Yeah, my understanding is that NX mimicks the remote end locally and then translates the result and transmits that. There's an Android app called BVNC that uses X forwarding with a local X server to do the same thing. No extra software and it's more responsive than X-forwarding. I should've just mentioned it before, it may be of use to you.