[GLLUG] Port forwarding

[Matt Graham]

On Friday 05 September 2003 15:08, after a long battle with technology, 
Matt Shirilla wrote:
> 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.)
[snippage... come on, people, trim your posts!]

VNC is going to be kind of slow no matter what you do.  I find it lags a 
bit even between my mostly-idle laptop and my desktop at home, and 
there, the machines are on a 100bT switched network.  It's actually 
faster and more responsive to run X clients than to use VNC in most 
cases... but X is too stateful and it's much more of a pain to set up.

The only thing that might help is to use TightVNC instead--the TightVNC 
server can compress the data sent more efficiently than regular VNC.  
TightVNC's VNC server and VNC client are both backwards-combatible with 
regular VNC server and client.  They also say in the VNC docs that 
16-bit color (not 8 or 24) is actually the fastest color depth for the 
server to run at.  Or you can try forwarding your regular VNC 
connection over "ssh -C", which will make ssh compress the data.

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