[Cialug] Real VNC

Don Cady cialug@cialug.org
Sat, 21 May 2005 09:35:10 -0500


I may be stating the obvious (and if I am I appoligize), but if you're using 
encryption over your wifi, you'll probably want to tweak settings for lower 
bandwidth then too. Just try it out and tweak things till you like it. :)

Don

> thanks Tim I will be using over a wirelessG network.
>
> timwilson011@mchsi.com wrote:I've used both Real and Tight VNC. The WinVNC 
> executable is close to the same,
> in fact, the TightVNC version points you to RealVNC's web site for 
> documentation.
>
> TightVNC offers some different options than RealVNC, I use TightVNC at 
> home to
> go from my P120 laptop to my Linux box downstairs. It's ok, a little slow, 
> but
> that's because of my slow laptop. I had to tinker with it until I could 
> find
> the right settings for my needs. I saw a lot of info about setting options 
> for
> slow networks, but I wouldn't call a 100mb network slow. I needed settings 
> for
> a slow computer, and had a harder time finding settings for that.
>
>
> --
> Tim W.