[GLLUG] Port forwarding

[Melson, Paul]

I would second this suggestion.  I'm running TightVNC on my WinXP box at home and often access it remotely using SSH port-forwarding.  It's reasonable across my AT&T/Comcast cable modem, though I use a lower color depth (256) than the actual display.  I've also found that the client makes a difference.  Running OpenSSH from within Cygwin gives me terrible performance, PuTTY is only slightly better, and SecureCRT is the best.

PaulM

-----Original Message-----
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.