Headless YellowDog

Longman, Bill longman at sharplabs.com
Fri Oct 8 11:02:54 MDT 2004


> Would VNC run noticeably faster if it were operating over a 100 BaseT
> network and not 10 BaseT + 802.11b (VNCserver is on YDL on a 266 MHz
> G3 and client is on a 400 MHz OS X G3 (yes, the more powerful machine
> is the client ;-))?

It would probably be faster. 802.11 is painfully slow. May as well go back
to 4Mbps AppleTalk.... Knowing VNC, though, it takes up lots of CPU and it
definitely likes network bandwidth. So the bottleneck could possibly be the
poor little G3's CPU. Sounds like reason enough for a new TiBook!


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