On Friday 05 April 2002 09:09 am, Morrison Davis wrote: > My whole purpose of trying tight VNC was to speed up screen repaints of a > 2d cad package > running over ATT broadband but so far I have yet to achieve any preformance > gains in fact > it may even seem slower. What am I doing wrong, Oh I'm using solaris on > both ends of the pipe, going through VPN. > > > Does anyone know if you can use tightVNC viewer with normal VNC server? [someone said yes]
You asked the wrong question. You can use tightVNC viewer with any VNC server. You seem to want to know if you can get the advantage of tightVNC by only upgrading the viewer. The answer to /that/ question is no. The server does the encoding. You can't get tight encoding from a non-tight server. You can't view tight encoding with a non-tight viewer. Bottom line is that the best you can hope for is the best encoding that is /common/ between your server and viewer. Also be aware of the difference between bandwidth and latency. For instance, on a dedicated 100M link VNC "feels" the fastest with "raw" encoding, which uses the /most/ bandwidth. This is because the server and the viewer don't waste time on encoding/compression to reduce bandwidth use. OTOH, over a slow link the tighter the encoding the faster it feels, because you aren't waiting as much for updates to trickle through the pipe. You'll probably have to experiment to figure out what works best in your particular situation. Good Luck! -Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
