I have been using Enterprise Edition for several years and very happy with it. I have not used encryption but other than that it is an excellent product. Although I am still at 4.2.9 version since none of the new features interest me.
You can answer most of your questions by downloading a trial version of software and testing it. As far as overhead goes, vnc is using some sort of a block cipher (aes or blowfish, I think) which does not create overhead or creates very little overhead. So using encryption your speed should be the same. One advantage of paid vnc over a free one is mirror driver. Over fast links desktop feels almost like local. On unix though free version is completely adequate. You can try tight vnc which also has mirror driver and should have somewhat better encoding over slow links. Also you could try remote desktop which comes with windows and is pretty good. Alex On 12/10/2009 3:01 PM, Peter Bunn wrote: > > Hello: > > For over a year, I've been using RealVNC (free version) through an SSH > tunnel to administer my Dad's Windows XP computer from several hundred > miles away. Recently, his older machine went south and a new one was > purchased for him. I have it mostly restored to the previous setup, but > ran into a problem with the SSH program I'd been using... and may want to > abandon it. > > I'm wondering if the RealVNC Personal Edition would be a better solution > for me, and I have a few questions... > > Is it as secure as the VNC over SSH tunnel method in all respects? > > Can the VNC service be run on a non-standard port (if desired) using the > 'native' (XP SP3) Windows Firewall? > > Would it be possible to run Personal Edition 'side by side' with the free > version (on the same target machine) to provide a backup method? > > I'm still on a dialup connection (with no hope of getting broadband > anytime soon) and the VNC/SSH combination I'd been using, while slow, was > 'survivable'... and a good bit faster than the web access service I had > as backup. > > With the added encryption overhead, will the Personal Edition of RealVNC > likely be noticeably slower than the free version? > > Any/all replies welcome and appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Peter B. > > ----- > > > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
