
But if all of these options don't provide you with the experience you're looking for, consider contacting your ISP and upgrading your bandwidth (which generally costs more $$$). Experiment with other supplied options like enabling CopyRect encoding and adjusting other custom compression levels.Įxperimentation is key to optimizing your VNC connection. I find this is most useful for viewing a desktop machine from a handheld device, which has constrained display area.Ĥ. VNC From Windows to OS X Screen Sharing is Slow. VNC connection to an iMac running Lion from Windows - very slow. This is CPU-intensive on the server, so if the quality level is adjustable, try experimenting with it to see if you're comfortable with the trade-offs between screen refresh latency and display quality.ģ. There are a whole bunch of questions about very slow performance of VNC when using it to login to a Mac. Check VNC viewers may control screen with password: and set a password. Check Show Remote Management status in menu bar.

If your client offers allowing JPEG compression, try turning this on. Below are instructions for enabling VNC on your Mac (Snow Leopard). There are other encodings, such as 'Hextile', 'CoRRE', 'ZlibHex', 'Zlib' and 'RRE' which may be more appropriate depending on your setup.Ģ. I find that 'Tight' works well over constrained bandwidths, but if the VNC server is on your LAN, that 'Raw' encoding may work better.
Tight vnc for mac Pc#
Using the vista laptop I can connect viadecrease the latency of the screen response):ġ. cc./cache.aspxd4653107746113117&wtrtX4UHNLhDSlHZssNP1jiVbTbCYpL I am now working remotely and trying to access the Mac on 192.168.1.102 and PC on 192.168.1.8 ideally from the Macbook Air and, as a backup device, from a Vista laptop.

Here are some other ways to speed up the connection (i.e.

Perhaps the site maintainer might considering merging this with the original post? This is a pretty lengthy comment, and while there's enough new content to justify its own hint, I don't want to create a totally separate hint on this topic.
