Obviously that will depend on your connection but also on whether you are using vim in text mode or using something like gvim via X11 tunelling. You can do tex

Obviously that will depend on your connection but also on whether you are using vim in text mode or using something like gvim via X11 tunelling. You can do text mode in near realtime on a 56k modem, OTOH I still have some noticeable lag (typing is ok, but menus etc lag) on my home broadband if I'm doing X11 forwarding.