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Maximilian Federle wrote:
>
> With IceWM the speed is almost ok, scrolling in firefox 
> is however not very snappy... :) 

True, micro-scrolling on my laptop Xterminal is sluggish.
I normally do page down.

> I can't believe this is the best possible as I've read
> howtos describing this method as "almost equal performant" 
> as sitting directly in front of the host.

I think my laptop Xterminal (75MHz) is slower than yours
and I've been quite happy with the performance.

> On the host it's a 0000:02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller

Is that your ethernet controller?  Multimedia too?
What speed ethernet?  10Mbps?  100Mbps?

> and on the laptop a microlink ethernet pcmcia card.

10Mbps?  

> Should be fast enough

What are your ping times?

> Probably linking the two network cards with a crosslink cable 
> should give max. performance, what do you think?

That's what I do. 

Cheers,
Steven