Am 02.08.2012 21:59, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:

>>>> Wanna play
>>>> the latest nextgen HD game?  No need to buy the latest and most
>>>> expensive
>>>> console or GPU, or download any executable, just click away and
>>>> start playing
>>>> right away on you inexpensive android device.
>>>
>>> How the heck would that work?
>>
>> they send you video frames and you send them command inputs.
>> Continuously.
>
> I severely doubt that even a gigabit link would have sufficiently low
> latency for this to be feasible.
>
> (Hell, I have a 100 mbit *LAN* and VNC is still laggy as hell...)

On a typical point-to-point link between a gamer's computer and the 
internet provider, the data transfer rate has absolutely, positively 
/nothing/ to do with latency. (Typical LANs with plenty of nodes are a 
totally different story due to packet collisions.)

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