Rachel, It just sounds like what you're seeing is the effects of your home network connection being very slow compared to your LAN. In particular, the up-link of the server-side LAN to the Internet is probably of the order of 256Kbps, while your LAN will be approximately 400 times faster.
Links as slow as 64 or even 33Kbps can support usable VNC sessions, but it does depend on what you're doing - highly graphical intensive applications will fare less well over very slow links than office productivity applications such as word-processors or mail user agents. Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rachel Sibley > Sent: 17 January 2006 21:14 > To: James Weatherall > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: vncviewer is slow on windows > > Hi James, The solaris viewer is on the same > network as the > vncserver. I actually tried viewing it on a windows > box at work > (also on the same network), and it was a lot of faster! > So, it must be > something wrong with my configuration at home :( > James Weatherall wrote: > > Rachel, > > Is the Solaris viewer that you're using on the same network > as the server? > > Regards, > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rachel Sibley > Sent: 17 January 2006 16:45 > To: [email protected] > Subject: vncviewer is slow on windows > > Hi Everyone, > > I am running vncserver on my Unix (Solaris) workstation and > when I open > a viewer on either Windows 2000 or XP from home, the response is very > very slow for me, almost to the point where it is unusable. I have > Comcast broadband at home and both computers are at least 1.7Ghz or > higher. I can open up a viewer on another Solaris box > without any slow > response times. Why is my viewer slow on windows but not on Solaris? > > Thanks! > Rachel > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
