Peter, do you mind me quoting your paragraph about bandwidth/latency? That's the best succinct description I've ever read.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Hutnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-04-05 12:00 Subject: Re: tight vncviewer > On Friday 05 April 2002 09:09 am, Morrison Davis wrote: > > My whole purpose of trying tight VNC was to speed up screen repaints of a > > 2d cad package > > running over ATT broadband but so far I have yet to achieve any preformance > > gains in fact > > it may even seem slower. What am I doing wrong, Oh I'm using solaris on > > both ends of the pipe, going through VPN. > > > > > Does anyone know if you can use tightVNC viewer with normal VNC server? > [someone said yes] > > You asked the wrong question. You can use tightVNC viewer with any VNC > server. > > You seem to want to know if you can get the advantage of tightVNC by only > upgrading the viewer. The answer to /that/ question is no. > > The server does the encoding. You can't get tight encoding from a non-tight > server. You can't view tight encoding with a non-tight viewer. > > Bottom line is that the best you can hope for is the best encoding that is > /common/ between your server and viewer. > > Also be aware of the difference between bandwidth and latency. For instance, > on a dedicated 100M link VNC "feels" the fastest with "raw" encoding, which > uses the /most/ bandwidth. This is because the server and the viewer don't > waste time on encoding/compression to reduce bandwidth use. OTOH, over a > slow link the tighter the encoding the faster it feels, because you aren't > waiting as much for updates to trickle through the pipe. > > You'll probably have to experiment to figure out what works best in your > particular situation. > > Good Luck! > > -Peter > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
