
I find that "Tight" works well over constrained bandwidths, but if the VNC server is on your LAN, that "Raw" encoding may work better. decrease the latency of the screen response):ġ. 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. Even if you can't stand 256 colors, try Thousands instead you should still see an increase in rendering speed.] In CotVNC, you do this via the Connection -> Connection Profiles menu option, then click on the Colors tab. You may see another speed boost if you tell your VNC client to only display 256 colors.
#The best vnc viewer for mac mac
There used to be quite a few Mac clients, but the only one I'm aware of with any recent activity is Chicken of the VNC (CotVNC). Redstone Software, though, makes an OS X VNC server called, simply enough, OSXvnc. RealVNC is the official home of the software, but they don't offer a Mac server (just PC/Unix servers and clients). [ robg adds: For those who don't know, VNC is a way to control one computer's GUI from another location. Like I said, a very simple and obvious hint. Last night, I switched the background to a flat colour only, and the increase has been almost astronomical.

I had all manner of fancy images used as desktop backgrounds on my Mac.

The speed isn't too bad, but I've found a very simple (and once you know, completely obvious) way to increase the connection speed. I use VNC on an XP box at work to connect to my Mac at home.
