[geeks] Smart phone data usage

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Thu Jul 7 09:26:47 CDT 2011


On 7/7/2011 10:19 AM, William Enestvedt wrote:
> Geoff wrote, "...he thing that really eats this up is video."
> 
>    How much data does an RDP or VNC session eat up -- more or less than
> streaming TV/movie?
> 
I would have to say far, far less ... VNC and RDP can work slowly over
56K dialup or 128K ISDN.

Also data is only sent back and forth when you do something, so for the
times you are reading something the connection is almost idle.

--Patrick


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