MAC OS 9.x VNC and WinXP.....

[Edwards, Tom M]

Anyone tried using a VNC app on a MAC OS9.x machine talking to a WinXP
machine? We have a pretty good interface between our G4 single CPU 733MHz
OS9.2.2 machines and a Dell PIII 400 Win2K system using RealVNC on the PC
side and XXX on the MAC side.
Yesterday we tried connecting to a single CPU P4 2.4GHz WinXP Pro SP2
machine and it was too slow for any reasonable use. I decreased desktop to
800x600 and 16bit color depth on the PC and on the MAC set the video to
thousands of colors rather than millions - still too slow in updating the
screen for practical use.

Any other suggested settings or apps that have better performance?

Tom Edwards
MTV Networks

[Sean Kamath]

[In a message on Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:53:46 EDT,
"Edwards, Tom M" wrote:]

Post by Edwards, Tom M
Anyone tried using a VNC app on a MAC OS9.x machine talking to a WinXP
machine? We have a pretty good interface between our G4 single CPU 733MHz
OS9.2.2 machines and a Dell PIII 400 Win2K system using RealVNC on the PC
side and XXX on the MAC side.
Yesterday we tried connecting to a single CPU P4 2.4GHz WinXP Pro SP2
machine and it was too slow for any reasonable use. I decreased desktop to
800x600 and 16bit color depth on the PC and on the MAC set the video to
thousands of colors rather than millions - still too slow in updating the
screen for practical use.
Any other suggested settings or apps that have better performance?

What VNC app are you using on the Mac? VNCThing is pretty good for 9.X.

You'll likely find that changing from zlib to hextile or other
encoding will greatly help.

Sean

[James Weatherall]

Tom,

Are you saying that connecting to the PIII 400 works well, but that
connecting to the P4 2.4 GHz doesn't? Graphics, network, memory and CPU
performance can all affect the perceived performance of VNC Server on a
system. The server's pixel format and whether or not pixel translation must
be performed by server or viewer will also affect things. Finally, if you
are using a viewer that supports scaling, enabling that feature can impact
performance too.

What is your metric for measuring the performance of the connection, BTW?

Regards,

-----Original Message-----
Sent: 02 June 2005 20:54
Subject: MAC OS 9.x VNC and WinXP.....
Anyone tried using a VNC app on a MAC OS9.x machine talking to a WinXP
machine? We have a pretty good interface between our G4
single CPU 733MHz
OS9.2.2 machines and a Dell PIII 400 Win2K system using
RealVNC on the PC
side and XXX on the MAC side.
Yesterday we tried connecting to a single CPU P4 2.4GHz WinXP Pro SP2
machine and it was too slow for any reasonable use. I
decreased desktop to
800x600 and 16bit color depth on the PC and on the MAC set
the video to
thousands of colors rather than millions - still too slow in
updating the
screen for practical use.
Any other suggested settings or apps that have better performance?
Tom Edwards
MTV Networks
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