<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 22, 2006, at 2:45 PM, <A href="mailto:jessup@san.rr.com">jessup@san.rr.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">be used to support a Mac in a different state, for example?</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">You can use it where you like. I have used it with remote Macs, though if</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">they were behind a firewall we had to forward a port on their router so the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">traffic was sent to their own computer in their local network.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">However, my own experience of it was that it was unacceptably slow... so</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">slow that I couldn't really get any work done. I have been disappointed in</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">it. But perhaps it was my own setup doing that. I have heard of others</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">using it very successfully.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Daly</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>