I had posted some earlier comments on this and never saw the post so perhaps
it got lost.

Anyhow, some time back I tested several of the remote control programs,
needing something fairly high speed on my 100 mbps LAN.  VNC, PCAnywhere,
Remote Administrator (by Famatech), and a couple of freebies I can't recall.
Granted this was on a MS network so I can't speak for Linux results, but of
all of them, VNC was practically unusable.  Between RA and PCA, the speed
differences were slight (a slight edge going to RA) but VNC wasn't even in
the ball park.  This is with everything at 100, CAT5 compliant, and using a
switch rather than a hub.  I would not call PCA and comparable products
dogs.  I WOULD call VNC a dog.

That may not translate to the Linux world, but it does say that presuming
the network is functioning normal for other networking operations, the
remote control software itself needs a second look.  Hopefully there are
choices out there.


Dan W. Dooley  WB5TKA  Bedford, Texas
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Kramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] how can i improve vnc responsiveness?


> In my experience, products like VNC (PCAnywhere, etc., etc., etc.) are
> just dogs, and very slow.
>



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