ISP connections ADSL: very "A" — asymmetric

Upload speed a fraction of download

• fine for Web-surfing;
• causes problems with SSH and X11.

Use SSH compression

• ssh -C
• noticeably faster for SSH-tunnelled X11/VNC over slow networks
• (though slows things down over fast networks).

Use VNC Compression

When we get to it in a few slides. . .