I would also like to see this. It may be difficult for some of the metropolitan subscribers to believe, but there are quite a few locations in the US where 24K to 26K constitutes a good connection. I think my employer has a facility in each one of them;>) Even where I live in NJ, the availability of cable and/or adsl is at least 1 year away (I'm looking at Starband as an alternative - anyone here had experience with vnc and/or zebedee over a relatively fast but high-latency dish connection?) While I regard VNC as workable under those conditions, the adjective "barely" comes quickly to mind. Making vnc just a bit snappier would probably overcome the slight reluctance some of my fellow support techs have shown for using it. >I know this topic has discussed before. I think I recall that ATT >against implementing 4bit greyscale. One of the concerns is that they do >not want to create a new encoding. > >But I think there are at least 3 reasons why this option would be very popular. > >1 - the percentage of people with low bandwidth internet connections will >still remain high for a while. Here in the US, dsl and cable modem are >gaining in popularity, but the sheer distance sensitivity means that most >people will not be able to get dsl for some years to come - leaving them >with only 56k. >2 - The percentage of people with low bandwidth wireless connections is >increasing rapidly. Sure, 3G, GPRS, and others are coming, but they are 3 >years off - as a realistic guess. >3 - it will be fast. VNC is awesome. I can install it on friends pc's, >relative's pc's, and all of the corporate pc's. I'm sure all of you are >proficient PC users. You know when somebody calls you with a question, >you're brain is flying at a rapid pace, and start menu/ whatever is >dragging across the screen like Jesus carrying the cross. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
