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by imtringued 1352 days ago
We aren't talking about website loading speeds. This is about how quickly your mouse cursor moves in response to mouse movements and that latency needs to be 16ms or less.

Personally I can get latency down to 200ms over the internet into a remote datacenter with WebRTC. The challenge however in practice is that running a CPU without a GPU will eventually starve the CPU because it has to do intensive things like run a 1080p video at 60fps which aren't feasible on a CPU only machine. This CPU load will then slow down the video encoder and overall responsiveness (no, responsiveness doesn't mean a mobile layout here) of the remote desktop.