Although I personally haven't used ZoneAlarm, a general suggestion is that VNC (and most "remote control" apps) are fairly processor/RAM intensive. By the description, I'm assuming the Win98 box has VNC and ZoneAlarm. I would suggest finding a shareware prog that will let you monitor CPU/RAM usage (they exist, just can't remember a name off-hand), and then try it with ZoneAlarm enabled/disabled. My hunch is that ZoneAlarm is simply putting the processor "over the edge" in terms of usage, as it's examining every packet that leaves/enters the box.
-----Original Message----- From: Seb Wills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VNC and Zonealarm I use VNC between two machines on a LAN (the client being a Win98 machine). Normally, VNC is highly responsive, and can do a full screen refresh in less than a second. If I enable ZoneAlarm (a free personal firewall which seems to be generally fairly highly regarded) on the client machine, VNC becomes unusably slow - it can barely keep up with moving the cursor around, and a full refresh takes 10s of seconds. Initially I assumed ZoneAlarm must just slow down all traffic a heck of a lot. But if I FTP a 5Mb file between two local machines, ZoneAlarm makes negligible difference to the transfer rate (433k/s instead of 466k/s). Can anyone suggest why ZoneAlarm is particularly affecting VNC performance and how to get round this (other than turning off ZoneAlarm when I use VNC)? Thanks seb --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
