Remote Desktop Alternatives

Since Remote Desktop in Vista (Ultimate) will not work with Home Premium, is
there a reasonably priced program that can take up RD's slack and works
well? Something along the lines of PC Anywhere?

Thanks!

"Ayere" <> wrote in message
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> Since Remote Desktop in Vista (Ultimate) will not work with Home Premium,
> is there a reasonably priced program that can take up RD's slack and works
> well? Something along the lines of PC Anywhere?

Hi Ayere

The most common alternative appears to be UltraVNC:

http://www.uvnc.com/

This is free (donation-ware), and adds security and some nice features to
the widely-used, cross-platform VNC protocol.

VNC itself was originally developed at Olivetti Research Lab in Cambridge,
UK (later acquired by AT&T, then tragically shut down by penny-pinching
bean-counters in 2002).
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

Thanks, Andrew! I'll give it a shot. RD seems to work OK between a 4400 x2
with Vista Ultimate (controlling machine) and P4 3ghz XP Pro machine,
although it is a bit slubbish. Is the sluggishness normal behaviour?

Thanks again!


"Andrew McLaren" <> wrote in message
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> "Ayere" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Since Remote Desktop in Vista (Ultimate) will not work with Home Premium,
>> is there a reasonably priced program that can take up RD's slack and
>> works well? Something along the lines of PC Anywhere?
>
> Hi Ayere
>
> The most common alternative appears to be UltraVNC:
>
> http://www.uvnc.com/
>
> This is free (donation-ware), and adds security and some nice features to
> the widely-used, cross-platform VNC protocol.
>
> VNC itself was originally developed at Olivetti Research Lab in Cambridge,
> UK (later acquired by AT&T, then tragically shut down by penny-pinching
> bean-counters in 2002).
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
>

"Ayere" <> wrote...
> Thanks, Andrew! I'll give it a shot. RD seems to work OK between a 4400 x2
> with Vista Ultimate (controlling machine) and P4 3ghz XP Pro machine,
> although it is a bit slubbish. Is the sluggishness normal behaviour?

Remote Desktop itself isn't normally "sluggish" ... but like any
client-server app, a big slice of it's performance will be determined by
network configuration. Eg: are the machines on the same LAN, or separated by
a WAN? Are they on a 10Mbps hub, or a Gigabit switch? And so on.

FWIW, I RDP into 3 or 4 machines (including an XP machine) which are all on
the same Gigabit switch as my main desktop machine, and the performance is
almost instantaneous: it's just like being logged in directly.

Under the Remote Desktop Options, there's an "Experience" tab, where you can
tweak various settings to get the best performance. You could try fiddling
with those a bit. Otherwise it would be a matter of getting a network trace,
to see where the lag was in the network performance.

Hope it helps a bit,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

"Andrew McLaren" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "Ayere" <> wrote...
>> Thanks, Andrew! I'll give it a shot. RD seems to work OK between a 4400
>> x2 with Vista Ultimate (controlling machine) and P4 3ghz XP Pro machine,
>> although it is a bit slubbish. Is the sluggishness normal behaviour?
>
> Remote Desktop itself isn't normally "sluggish" ... but like any
> client-server app, a big slice of it's performance will be determined by
> network configuration. Eg: are the machines on the same LAN, or separated
> by a WAN? Are they on a 10Mbps hub, or a Gigabit switch? And so on.
>
> FWIW, I RDP into 3 or 4 machines (including an XP machine) which are all
> on the same Gigabit switch as my main desktop machine, and the performance
> is almost instantaneous: it's just like being logged in directly.
>
> Under the Remote Desktop Options, there's an "Experience" tab, where you
> can tweak various settings to get the best performance. You could try
> fiddling with those a bit. Otherwise it would be a matter of getting a
> network trace, to see where the lag was in the network performance.
>
> Hope it helps a bit,
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

Indeed it does help, Andrew, and thanks for the pointers. Justing knowing
that the performance you speak of is attainable is valuable.

Ayere

> Indeed it does help, Andrew, and thanks for the pointers. Justing knowing
> that the performance you speak of is attainable is valuable.


Cool. Let us know if you run into follow-up questions!

Cheers,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au