I use VNC between two machines on a LAN (the client being a Win98 machine). Normally, VNC is highly responsive, and can do a full screen refresh in less than a second.
If I enable ZoneAlarm (a free personal firewall which seems to be generally fairly highly regarded) on the client machine, VNC becomes unusably slow - it can barely keep up with moving the cursor around, and a full refresh takes 10s of seconds. Initially I assumed ZoneAlarm must just slow down all traffic a heck of a lot. But if I FTP a 5Mb file between two local machines, ZoneAlarm makes negligible difference to the transfer rate (433k/s instead of 466k/s). Can anyone suggest why ZoneAlarm is particularly affecting VNC performance and how to get round this (other than turning off ZoneAlarm when I use VNC)? Thanks seb --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
