Very slow X-Win32

I recently got my first apartment and set up cable access with a NAT
router. Internet access works fine, haven't had any problems there.
My problem comes when I try to connect to the computers at my school
through ssh in order to do homework on their machines. I've been
using Tera Term Pro SSH and X-Win32 on a Windows box for a few years
now; I never had any problems with connectivity or speed when I was
local to the university. Now that I'm not, I'm noticing the ssh
terminal has a visible delay to it (not unexpected) and any X
applications I run take multiple minutes to display on my screen. Is
this something that is simply caused by not being local to the
university, or could there be something I need to change on my router?
Are there settings in either my SSH or X server programs that would
increase the speed? Thanks so much in advance!

-- Brian

Brian Hilstrom wrote:
> I recently got my first apartment and set up cable access with a NAT
> router. Internet access works fine, haven't had any problems there.
> My problem comes when I try to connect to the computers at my school
> through ssh in order to do homework on their machines. I've been
> using Tera Term Pro SSH and X-Win32 on a Windows box for a few years
> now; I never had any problems with connectivity or speed when I was
> local to the university. Now that I'm not, I'm noticing the ssh
> terminal has a visible delay to it (not unexpected) and any X
> applications I run take multiple minutes to display on my screen. Is
> this something that is simply caused by not being local to the
> university, or could there be something I need to change on my router?
> Are there settings in either my SSH or X server programs that would
> increase the speed? Thanks so much in advance!

Yeah, it's very different if you're off site. Getting apps at 10MB even,
is very noticeably faster than at 1MB (on a *good* day).

All I can tell you is to try moving your window manager around. If you
have a local manager, run it instead of a remote one. It gets to be a
bit of a pain sometimes, having to put in the complete command every
time, unless you write a bunch of scripts locally.

I'm running Cygwin's X server right now and I have three gkrellms
running on three different remote machines. One's on a fractional T and
even that one runs fine. I don't run mozilla across an X session unless
I am desperate. (The other two are on a DS3, so those seem like they're
local!)

CPU makes a difference, cipher makes a big difference (use blowfish or
AES) and you might wanna tweak compression, too.

HTH,

Bill