[X4U] Remote Desktop Question

[Michael Elliott]

That's how I feel using VNC with the built-in VNC server in OS X.   
Painfully slow.  But I can still get some basic functionality.

Maybe my memories are too rosy, but it seems like I could use VNC  
with OS9 over a dialup connection, and it had seemed much faster.   
I'm sure this has to do with either 1) my foggy memory or 2) the  
difference in complexity (alpha channels, blending, transparency,  
etc) that the windowing engine has to transmit.

What I wish I could get is transmission of just a small square of  
screen around the cursor sent as an iChat-like video transmission.   
I'm usually more interested in opening/closing windows, launching,  
changing preferences in apps, etc, than seeing my entire desktop.

Michael


On May 22, 2006, at 2:45 PM, jessup at san.rr.com wrote:

> be used to support a Mac in a different state, for example?
>
> You can use it where you like. I have used it with remote Macs,  
> though if
> they were behind a firewall we had to forward a port on their  
> router so the
> traffic was sent to their own computer in their local network.
>
> However, my own experience of it was that it was unacceptably  
> slow... so
> slow that I couldn't really get any work done. I have been  
> disappointed in
> it. But perhaps it was my own setup doing that. I have heard of others
> using it very successfully.
>
> Daly

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