Optimal Settings?

[californiajeff]

I have noticed there are a lot of options on both the viewer and the server. Does anyone know the optimal settings to use for various bandwidth speeds?

[Ares]

Auto is pretty good at guessing the right settings, but basically on the Viewer's main screen it tells you the different speeds for different connections. I usually use Auto or Slow, myself. Auto sometimes has a hard time working on really slow connections, for me anyway.


-Ares

[ipsec]

ultra is what a lot of people use with the hook driver.. it seems to run less cpu intensive on remote computer.

[lizard]

Hello
It's not easy question but I can give you some hints of generally-good-working sets.
'course I'm not saying those are always best for the matching case. It's your job to find *your* best or just go on with "Auto" and let it be.
good luck

solid user interface computing over internet
Encoding: ZRLE or ZlibHex
ColorReduction: ON
Copyrect: ON
Cache: ON
Compression: ON
ZRLE has good balance of efficient data compression and low CPU load, but definitely not suitable to full-color graphics without color reduction.


full-color graphics computing over internet
Encoding: Tight
ColorReduction: OFF (full-color)
Copyrect: ON
Cache: ON
Compression: ON
JPEG comp: ON
Tight sends smallest data, draws full-color images a few times faster than the others, but basically keeps guzzling a lot of CPU power.


computing over LAN 10M
Encoding: Hextile
ColorReduction: ON
Copyrect: ON
Cache: OFF
Hextile enables max transfer speed and low CPU load at once, sacrificing the network efficiency.


computing over LAN 100M
Encoding: Hextile or Ultra
ColorReduction: OFF (full-color)
Copyrect: ON
Cache: OFF
Ultra, supported by originally-designed polling mechanism, will show how ever fast VNC can be, but unfortunately seems to have a problem dealing with the mouse cursor.

[Redback]

G'day All

How is it that when I saved my setting (option.vnc) that the program keeps over writing the setting that I have found to be good for my wireless setup , I can obtain speed's as high as 1.2mb
on the linksys but dam it annoying to say the least when ya have to rewrite the setting each time.
Any solution people ?

[mbrown]

Yes, make the settings just the way you like them and then make the options.vnc file "read-only".

[californiajeff]

Thanks for all the feedback. I am currently trying the above to see what works best. I will let you know how it works out.