[TriLUG] VNC/SSH Tunneling speed

[Brian Cottingham]

If you're having a bandwidth/latency problem with VNC take a look at NX[1].
Rather than just passing screenshots over the network it passes actual X11
events back and forth, which have a much lower overhead than bitmaps. I've
found it quite usable over the Internet, and it has all the features you
could need: connections run over SSH, display resizing, connecting to an
existing X session, and settings for faster/slower networks.

-Brian

[1] http://www.nomachine.com/download.php


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>  I have a ssh tunnel to my server @home. I'm on a cable modem. I'm
> wondering if there is a way to speed up the response time?  I've dropped my
> color depth to 16. I'd like to be able to keep a decent colordepth.
>
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