[riskable]

I agree with this. That's why I spent so much time optimizing Gate One's Terminal->HTML encoder. On my i7 laptop the round-trip time for keystroke->screen update hovers around 10-20ms on localhost (remember though: My laptop is processing both ends at the same time).

On actual server hardware that "baseline latency" is about 5-10ms. So for any given client connecting to Gate One the response time for keystrokes should be at most 10ms + whatever the connection latency is.

[lcedp]

I'm positively impressed with responsiveness of this html project, but 170 ms in my case is the shear distance to the server :)