Hi all,
Where I work, we all have Windows computers. A friend who works next to me is constantly connected to his home computer (a PC) via RDP. The connection is remarkably smooth... almost no lag at all. You almost can't tell that it's a remote machine.
Seeing this, I thought "hey, that's a novel idea", and decided to try the same thing with my home computer. The problem is, I have a Mac😀. Of course, Apple's answer to remote desktop is VNC, so I set up the port forwards, came into work the next day, and connected to my Mac with TightVNC from my work PC.
Unfortunately, the results were disappointing. The lag is so bad that it's basically unusable. 5-10 second lag on every mouse click, every key stroke. Now I've done a few searches and the most common thing I hear people say is "you need a faster internet connection". Well, I'm fortunate enough to live in one of the few areas where FiOS is available and I have a 20/20 line at my house. That's 20mbps download AND 20mbps upload. My internet is crazy fast. On top of that, the company I work for is a commercial telcom provider and our office computers have 40/40 (or better) internet connection speeds.
That is (presumably) why my friend can use his remote PC and not even tell the difference. So my question is, how the hell can Apple not have an equal or better remote desktop solution??. I mean, I jumped on the Mac bandwagon because it does everything better than windows! Don't tell me Apple is going to let me down now🙁.
So, to all of you who have experience with this, what's the best (smoothest) solution for connecting from PC -> Mac? I've only tried the built-in Snow Leopard VNC server so far, but I've heard people talk about LogMeIn, Back to my Mac, PC Anywhere, and Apple's enterprise Remote Desktop software. Are any of these faster than VNC? I get the feeling that most (or all) of them just use VNC for the connection.
Thanks!
Where I work, we all have Windows computers. A friend who works next to me is constantly connected to his home computer (a PC) via RDP. The connection is remarkably smooth... almost no lag at all. You almost can't tell that it's a remote machine.
Seeing this, I thought "hey, that's a novel idea", and decided to try the same thing with my home computer. The problem is, I have a Mac😀. Of course, Apple's answer to remote desktop is VNC, so I set up the port forwards, came into work the next day, and connected to my Mac with TightVNC from my work PC.
Unfortunately, the results were disappointing. The lag is so bad that it's basically unusable. 5-10 second lag on every mouse click, every key stroke. Now I've done a few searches and the most common thing I hear people say is "you need a faster internet connection". Well, I'm fortunate enough to live in one of the few areas where FiOS is available and I have a 20/20 line at my house. That's 20mbps download AND 20mbps upload. My internet is crazy fast. On top of that, the company I work for is a commercial telcom provider and our office computers have 40/40 (or better) internet connection speeds.
That is (presumably) why my friend can use his remote PC and not even tell the difference. So my question is, how the hell can Apple not have an equal or better remote desktop solution??. I mean, I jumped on the Mac bandwagon because it does everything better than windows! Don't tell me Apple is going to let me down now🙁.
So, to all of you who have experience with this, what's the best (smoothest) solution for connecting from PC -> Mac? I've only tried the built-in Snow Leopard VNC server so far, but I've heard people talk about LogMeIn, Back to my Mac, PC Anywhere, and Apple's enterprise Remote Desktop software. Are any of these faster than VNC? I get the feeling that most (or all) of them just use VNC for the connection.
Thanks!
