As a relative newcomer to RealVNC I don't usually get involved in the list other than welcoming it as a tremendous source of learning.
On this occasion, however, I have to take issue on the subject of wireless networking. Using Hamachi as a secure tunnel I assist friends and family in various parts of the world and have 9 computers on my VPN, 7 of which are connected wirelessly. Four PCs via USB wireless adaptors and 3 laptops via PC cards. I have no problems whatever. In all wireless cases the connection is from the phone socket to a standard ADSL modem and then into a [3Com; Belkin; Netgear; D-Link] 802.11G wireless router. Regards Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Westfall Sent: 26 May 2006 21:47 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: install & version help (long) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I agree that the problem is likely related to the wireless nature of your network. You do not indicate 1) The type of wireless you are using 2) The distance from your router each PC is. 3) How many walls the signal has to go through. It's possible your issues could be obviated by the use of a few products. 1) Wireless G Equipment if you aren't already using it. 2) Don't use USB or PCI Wireless cards, they suck, just buy some Wireless ethernet bridges. 3) The strategic use of 1 or more range expanders for your wireless network. A Range expander is basically a wireless "repeater". Matt Westfall Owner / Operator FiftyPounds Internet http://www.fiftypounds.com This message is digitally signed with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > Andy and Lenore Etherington napisal(a): > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] >> Unfortunately, winVNC is proving to be problematical. Sometimes after >> choosing a machine to connect to, the viewer just "goes away", and I never >> get asked for a password, and no session will be established. Other times I >> will be prompted for the password, and THEN it goes away. Sometimes I get a >> failure to find server error even though I know the machine is up, and VNC >> server is running. I could deal with the flakiness of the connections, > [...] >> Details: >> Viewer tablet pc, 1.4 GHz centrino, windows xp professional, wireless >> network connection, VNC viewer 3.3.7.0 >> Server 1 tower pc, 500 MHz Piii, windows 98se, 10/100 into router, winVNC >> server 3.3.3R9 >> Server 2 tower pc, 500 MHz Piii, windows 98se, wireless, winVNC server >> 3.3.3R7 >> Server 3 tower pc, 2.4 GHz P4, windows xp home, wireless, winVNC server >> 3.3.3R7 > > Hm... these versions are should work quite well with each other, without the > problems you described. > I'm afraid that the wireless connection may be the problem. As people > already mentioned on the list multiple times, some of the wireless routers > cause problems with VNC (I never experienced this personally, as I generally > don't use wireless connections). > Regards, > Jaroslaw Rafa > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEd2kpb/8X6V5MpAURArlOAKC2e3wavO9vhhMl+/VE2sUpF7QT5gCeNIHS 2w2rC51dBs5LU2q75EooRk8= =26w1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
