A friend sent me a message (not to this list), which is appended below. He claims that Windows Terminal Services will do for me what VNC does, but Terminal Services runs much faster. I'm wondering if he is correct. I think he's wrong about bmp encoding, for one, but is any of it correct?
Thanks in advance! Mike -- Michael B. Miller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Division of Epidemiology and Institute of Human Genetics University of Minnesota http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/ On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, a friend wrote (off list): > VNC sends compressed bmp data of changed pixels when a screen change occurs. > Terminal Service operates lower in Windows GDI and is much faster. Example - > I type "Hello World" in wordpad. In a VNC session it polls the window, > decides which pixels changed, grabs the bmp data for those pixels, > compresses it and sends it. Terminal Services says "Hello World" was entered > into this app - display it. The difference is very significant. > > As an example - VNC is sluggish via broadband while Terminal Service is > substantially faster over a 28.8 modem (I've seen this). > > I don't know about X - though I know Windows-based X servers are typically > slower than Linux. Typically when I have to use Cygwin I'm coming over an > IPSec VPN - which I think it frigging my MTU and causing me > fragmentation-induced performance hits. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
