VNC From Windows to OS X Screen Sharing is Slow
I bought a Mac Mini and turned on Screen Sharing and added a password.
Then I opened forwarded port 5900 on my router so I could access it externally...
The problem is that it is amazingly slow. I even tried it on my WIFI Lan that it was connected to also and although that was the fastest it was still delayed and hard to use XCode...
Things I have tried.
First I tried Real VNC (Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 7) and then I tried Mocha VNC (iPhone). I just downloaded Ultra VNC Viewer and that seems to be a little faster (Windows 7) but it is still too slow to use.
Another things is when I am trying to connect to my machine most VNC Viewers have options. Like VNC Viewer has "Format and Encoding" and Hextile is what I have it using... I wonder if any of the other options (ZRLE, Tight, Zlib(+xor), ZlibHex, RRE, CoRRE, Raw, Ultra, ZYWRLE) are faster
There are also options like "Use CopyRect encoding" checked "Use Cache Encoding" (unchecked) "Zip/Tight Compression" (checked with 6) and "Jpeg (Tight) - Quality:" (checked with 6)...
The other option I tried changing was Colors but only "Full Colors" seems to work... 256, 64, 8, 8 Dark Colors, 4 Grey Colors, Black & White seem to get me kicked off by the mac mini...
The next thing I did was I went to Display Settings on the mac and switched it from 1920x1080 to 800x600 and switched colors from Millions to Thousands...
This seemed to make it go a little faster but still not usable...
Also to note... My internet that my Mac Mini is on is not slow - Right now I am downloading the iPhone SDK and getting 600+kbps - that should be fast enough to do remote stuff...
Then I opened forwarded port 5900 on my router so I could access it externally...
The problem is that it is amazingly slow. I even tried it on my WIFI Lan that it was connected to also and although that was the fastest it was still delayed and hard to use XCode...
Things I have tried.
First I tried Real VNC (Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 7) and then I tried Mocha VNC (iPhone). I just downloaded Ultra VNC Viewer and that seems to be a little faster (Windows 7) but it is still too slow to use.
Another things is when I am trying to connect to my machine most VNC Viewers have options. Like VNC Viewer has "Format and Encoding" and Hextile is what I have it using... I wonder if any of the other options (ZRLE, Tight, Zlib(+xor), ZlibHex, RRE, CoRRE, Raw, Ultra, ZYWRLE) are faster
There are also options like "Use CopyRect encoding" checked "Use Cache Encoding" (unchecked) "Zip/Tight Compression" (checked with 6) and "Jpeg (Tight) - Quality:" (checked with 6)...
The other option I tried changing was Colors but only "Full Colors" seems to work... 256, 64, 8, 8 Dark Colors, 4 Grey Colors, Black & White seem to get me kicked off by the mac mini...
The next thing I did was I went to Display Settings on the mac and switched it from 1920x1080 to 800x600 and switched colors from Millions to Thousands...
This seemed to make it go a little faster but still not usable...
Also to note... My internet that my Mac Mini is on is not slow - Right now I am downloading the iPhone SDK and getting 600+kbps - that should be fast enough to do remote stuff...
Mac Mini, Windows Vista
