>> (Hell, I have a 100 mbit *LAN* and VNC is still laggy as hell...)
>
> VNC is an insult to any network. X11 had some clue, but VNC really lost
> everything. Worst than VNC, I guess, would be running VM via VNC...

Funny. Everybody tells me that X11 has a really horrid wire protocol...

> Also, default client for VNC do not have compression (tsclient nor
> vinagre).

Actually I'm using TightVNC, which is supposedly one of the best.

> First speedup: on remote, change background for a plain colour (no fancy
> pictures). Next reduce to 256 colours on the client. Or Thousands.

Why bother? The client has an option to not send the wallpaper. (Not 
that any of these machines /have/ one in the first place...) It also 
seems to turn off effects like the colour gradients on window titlebars. 
And yet, it's still laggy as hell, and sometimes parts of the display 
intermittently fail to update unless you manually "refresh".

I hate to say it, but RDP seems to be more reliable. Although no less 
laggy...

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