On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote: > Now that my high speed service provider has started to charge based on > the number of bits transacted over my line, I've gotten stingy about > bandwidth (by which I mean byte count, not bits per second). I never > realized how costly it was to use a graphical interface like VNC (and > probably true of most graphical interfaces). Just having a cursor > blinking costs in the order of Kbytes/s. Just moving the pointer also > costs this much, even with tightvnc's local cursor handling. And this > is with tight encoding, compresslevel=9. How very sad. An ssh session > seems to be the way to go, if you don't need the graphical aspect.
Thanks for that info, Fred. I've been thinking about using VNC with a mobile PalmOS device (Treo), but now I think I'll try an ssh client instead. I can pay by the minute (GSM) or by the megabyte (GPRS), but the GPRS service is always-on and faster. When paying $5/MB, you want to save every byte you can! Mike _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
