Hi,
I know there have been numerous discussions regarding access speed using a KStars/EKOS remote connection to an INDI server. But I have a simple issue here that I just cant explain.

In my remote observatory I have a Linux PC where I can sit and freeze running KStars/EKOS/INDI. So, remotely, on another Linux PC I can connect to the observatory (via WIFI) and work from the house. To do this I have been connecting to the observatory using SSH X11 (X windows) forwarding and running KStars as a remote desktop app. This can be fast and highly usable. However, sometimes the connection just gives up - probably due to the very high rate of traffic? So, I thought I would just try running the INDI server on the observatory PC and connect in using KStars set up to connect remotely. This works fine but the image download time is so slow i.e., 94 seconds for a 33MByte ASI1600MM image! I have checked the network speed between the PCs using iperf and it shows 40Gbits/sec. So why is it so slow to transfer?

Thanks and regards,
Dave

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