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VNC surprisingly more sluggish than RDC — #1

I need to be able to run the desktop of a PC at work, from home. Since various requirements of installed hardware and software mandate Windows 2000, I can't use Windows XP Pro with…
MacNN Networking by DominikHoffmann

VNC surprisingly more sluggish than RDC — #2

My recollection is that on the VNC server there is a slider setting that trades off VNC performance against the local PC performance. You might try fiddling with that setting.
MacNN Networking by John Strung

VNC surprisingly more sluggish than RDC — #3

Quote: Originally posted by John Strung: My recollection is that on the VNC server there is a slider setting that trades off VNC performance against the local PC perform…
MacNN Networking by DominikHoffmann

VNC surprisingly more sluggish than RDC — #5

VNC isn't exactly the fastest protocol out there. If you want performance, I'd recommend installing the TightVNC software package instead. Unfortunately, I don't know of any Mac cl…
MacNN Networking by ginoledesma

VNC surprisingly more sluggish than RDC — #7

General rules for VNC speed - decrease screen size - decrease color depth - turn on compression I believe I used to launch my client in lower bit depth than my server (running at…
MacNN Networking by Zim

VNC surprisingly more sluggish than RDC — #8

Quote: Originally posted by DominikHoffmann: I wish Microsoft would just sell a simple add-on Terminal Services/RDC package that wouldn't require Win 2k Server. Win…
MacNN Networking by tooki

VNC surprisingly more sluggish than RDC — #9

Quote: Originally posted by tooki: Windows XP Pro has an RDC server built-in. tooki Exactly. Unfortunately, upgrading to Windows XP Pro is not an option. Dominik
MacNN Networking by DominikHoffmann

VNC surprisingly more sluggish than RDC — #10

RDC actually sends windowing commands between the server and you. So because of that - it can be TONS faster. VNC sends compressed bitmaps. I can run RDC over GPRS and be usable. …
MacNN Networking by alex_kac

VNC surprisingly more sluggish than RDC — #12

Quote: Originally posted by Sarc: you might want to use compression in order to get beeter speeds while using VNC. use a SSH tunnel with the -c (compression) flag. It ca…
MacNN Networking by DominikHoffmann

VNC surprisingly more sluggish than RDC — #13

Quote: Originally posted by alex_kac: My biggest pet peeve with RDC is that its copy/paste between server and client are broken and the RDC client on the Mac could kill …
MacNN Networking by DominikHoffmann

Dubious Forums anyone ? — #3

If you call that forum dubious then I'm really concerned for you. Perhaps dubious was the wrong word should I dare to say acriminous forums or sacriligous forums maybe what I'm lo…
MacNN Networking by pcd2k
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