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March 01, 2006

VNC latency: bandwidth, VPN, hops?

I'm at home over the VPN to access a remote desktop with VNC. Anything more advanced than an xterm just crawls. My DSL throughput is about 512 Kb/s, a little bit dampened, but not much, by the VPN.

Traceroute shows 6 hops between my system here and the system I'm connecting to down at work. What causes the latency that makes using the mouse a study in frustration?

Posted by Mark at March 1, 2006 09:30 AM

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