[Linux] Re: VNC

[Kwan Lowe]

Joseph Patterson wrote:
> 
> Well, at my last job we were running it on a 64K cir frame relay wan - the
> performance was... painfull, but acceptable for short periods of time.  I'd have to
> say that I feel PCAnywhere is more efficient (IMHO).  VNC however is cross-platform,
> has a smaller footprint, and is generally more versatile.  And it's free.
> 

I've run it across 56K modems without problems. If you make sure that
it's sending 8-bit color instead it runs a lot faster. You can also have
it buffer the deltas so it doesn't try to send changes for every mouse
movement. Also, set your remote desktop to non-pixmap solid colors.
Finally, if you search on freshmeat, someone has created a better
compression engine for the latest release. It supposedly improves the
compression on regular patterns. I applied the batch and it did *seem*
faster but I haven't really benchmarked it.

There is also a way to run it through SSH. I have never tried this, but
some have said that SSH connections are actually faster than non-SSH.
Don't know if this is true.