VNC is not slow for me (was Re: [nzlug] Best approach for remote-admin of a Debian box)

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Mon, 22-Oct-2007 at 05:45AM +0200 (give or take),
Martin Bähr wrote:

|> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:04:29PM +1300, Cameron Bradley wrote:
|> > X via SSH tunnelling is slow, in many cases slower than
|> > VNC... only way I can think of.
|> 
|> does vnc encrypt the communication?
|> if not then the comparison makes no sense.
|> if ssh slows down X then it will do so with vnc as well.
|> 
|> and i am curious where you git the impression that vnv is fast.
|> even within the office, connecting to a vnc server on windows is quite
|> noticably slower than local, while remote X to a different machine is
|> not really distinguishable from local. (that's anecdotal evidence, and
|> naturally, different OS and different hardware make that comparison
|> mostly meaningless)

In my anecdotal experience, VNC within a work LAN from XP to a RHEL3
box is not noticeably slower than being on the RH box.  (I feel as
though I have a toy computer behaving almost as though it's a real
computer).  The same network is often rather slow handling files on
the "H:" drive, so it might be a fortunate (for me) consequence of how
it's set up, and might not be generally the case.

The question is about ADSL, so my experience could very well be of no
consequence to the original poster, but I thought a good word for VNC
was in order.

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