I find this interesting. I have seen this issue and did not know how to fix it. I do now.
The other issue I have seen is the screen saver stays on and the page does not refresh after connect. I have found adjusting to a lower resolution manually rather than the "let the server decide" option fixes this as well. Dale --- On Thu, 5/14/09, James Weatherall <j...@realvnc.com> wrote: > From: James Weatherall <j...@realvnc.com> > Subject: RE: Indirect connection works better > To: "'Philip Herlihy'" <phi...@herlihy.eu.com>, vnc-list@realvnc.com > Date: Thursday, May 14, 2009, 10:20 AM > Hi Philip, > > Some Wi-Fi routers have trouble handling large numbers of > small network packets, such as are produced when moving the > mouse around in the VNC session, and that in turn can upset > the Windows TCP stack and lead to the sort of behaviour > you're seeing. > > You can enable the "Pointer event rate-limiting" feature in > the VNC Viewer to work around this problem. > > Cheers, > > -- > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com > [mailto:vnc-list- > > boun...@realvnc.com] > On Behalf Of Philip Herlihy > > Sent: 14 May 2009 15:34 > > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com > > Subject: Indirect connection works better > > > > Recent came across a situation again which has puzzled > me in the past. > > I'm > > trying to connect to a machine running VNC Free > edition in an office. > > I can > > make the connection (having set up port forwarding on > the router) but > > it > > hangs, with only the top third of the screen visible > after several > > minutes. > > Further attempts produced the same result. > > > > That office has a workstation used as a simple > workstation. Unlike the > > "target" machine, which is wirelessly connected, this > one is connected > > to > > the router by cable. I can connect reliably to > the fileserver PC. I > > found > > that within my remote session I could start a new > session from the > > fileserver PC to the target PC, and this worked well. > > > > Now that's using the same links, but in two jumps > instead of one. > > What's > > going on? > > > > Phil, London > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
