Well, I suppose if the proxy server is relatively "close" to either the
control or the client network topology-wise, it wouldn't make too much of a
difference in terms of responsiveness. I was thinking specifically of one
similar company I was looking at a while back (the name escapes me) whose
servers were in California. I (and some of our customers) am/are in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I have a hard time thinking that me connecting to
California and my customer connecting to California is going to be more (or
even close to) effecient than me just directly connecting to the customer's
machine.
BTW, what kind of proxy setup are you using (ie, VNCProxy, something else)??
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael F. March [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 5:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is `gotomypc.com' built upon vnc?
The company I work for is using VNC using the exact same method
as GoToMyPC employs and I have to say that using a Proxy almost
always works the same or better than going point-2-point. If
multiple people are viewing the same session, proxy always seems
to work better. (Ever try more than two people sharing the same
Windows box, forget it.)
I have done traceroutes many times both between two VNC peers
and then from each peer to the proxy and the total hop count
of going through the proxy has never seemed to exceed 20% more
than the peer to peer hop count.
I will agree that if your proxy is on a crummy link, the advantages
wither away (sands the firewall issues.)
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