[GLLUG] Port forwarding

[Benjamin Minshall]

Matt-

The best thing to do is to drop the screen resolution on the target VNC 
machine.  Although 1600x1200 is usable over a cable modem, 800x600 is 
far more tolerable.

I also use the "-compresslevel 9" flag on xvncviewer which enables 
maximum JPEG compression when updating the screen.  I've had some 
success with "-encodings hextiles" and "-encodings copyrect" on some 
machines also, but as far as I can tell that depends on the apps you're 
running over VNC.  The manpage suggests copyrect will perform better 
with lots of moving graphics.  I wouldn't recommend the default "raw" 
encoding unless you're on >=10Mbit.

-Ben

Matt Shirilla wrote:
> Thanks Ben, I just setup SSHD and was about to get setup the same scenario.
> I am curious if you have any performance recommendations.  (I once used VNC
> to attach to my home PC from work and it was disappointingly slow.)
>