[K12OSN] VNCViewer and speed of refresh

Doug Simpson simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Wed Jul 14 19:15:26 UTC 2004


It is DSL at home T1 at work.

I know outbound is slower than inbound.  I will try what you said and see 
what happens. . .

DS

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 13:39, Doug Simpson wrote:
> > I read most of a post given and it is all greek to me. . 
> > 
> > It was about using X instead of vnc.
> > 
> > Given that there is an X server running at both places, what would be an 
> > example commandline for this scenario?
> > 
> > Computer at home, where the program is to *run*.
> > 
> > computer at work where the program running on the home computer would be 
> > displayed.
> 
> If you can log in via ssh:
> >From a terminal window at work,
> ssh -C home_machine
>  log in
> You can run text based programs in your terminal window or if
> you start an X program (by typing it's name, perhaps with a &
> to keep the terminal prompt active), it will open a window on
> your work desktop.  In spite of what I said earlier, this will
> be much faster if the display is mostly text.
> 
> Do you really have a T1 at home or is this a cable/dsl connection?
> Many 'high-speed' home connections have fairly low caps on
> outbound traffic.
> 
> ---
>   Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
> 
> 
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Doug Simpson
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DeQueen, AR 71832
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