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VNC speed with Mac OS Remote Desktop

How to improve VNC speed with Mac OS 10.4 Remote Desktop.
Controlling a remote Mac with Chicken of the VNC, can be very tedious on slow network connection. To speed thing up, I found the following setting most effective:

  1. Thousands of colors instead of the default Millions.
  2. Zlib Encoding

These recommendations are based on the following software versions:
  • Mac OS 10.4.11 on both local and remote Macs
  • Chicken on the VNC 2.0b4
  • IPSecuritas 3.2
  • Linksys RV042 Firmware Version: 1.3.12.6-tm with payload compression

Challenge yourself!...