Simple speed-up tips for Apple Remote Desktop and VNC
Jul 17, '06 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: giulio
I've found two things you can do to speed up Apple Remote Desktop and also VNC:
- Set the desktop background to a flat color on the client. This may be obvious, but you get much better image compression with less complex images.
- Set the client's depth to the same depth as the viewer. Use thousands instead of millions (if you want color). When I had the client (G4 677 TiPB) set to millions and the viewer to thousands, the session was not much slower than if the viewer was also in millions. I think this is because the client has to convert from millions to thousands, dither, and only then, send the bits. Putting both the client and viewer to thousands gave me a decent speed boost, since the client had no extra work to do.
If you have a pretty beefy client, you might not notice the increase as much as I did...
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