[NTLUG:Discuss] VNC speed through an SSH tunnel

[George Lass]

Get "tight VNC" and you can set 
-compresslevel 9 -quality 0
on vncviwer to minimize network traffic

George

severian at pobox.com wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
>    I got VNC running to a Pentium III-933Windows 2000 VNCserver from a
> Celeron 500 SuSE 8.1 VNC client.  I was surprised at how much slower the
> connection was than when I ran it without the tunnel.  I do have
> compression turned on.  To others that have done this, I have a couple of
> questions.
>    1. Do I just have to live with the big performance drop or are there
> some tricks I should try?
>    2. Is my performance limited by the Celeron 500 that is
> encrypting?  Does the speed of this machine make a big difference?  If so,
> I'll edd more hardware.  If not, it would be a waste of money.
> Thank you,
> Ralph
> 
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