I regularly admin boxes all over the country via ARD, and it is MILES better than it used to be on PPC systems over 256k or ISDN links. I can say though that as Mac CPU's have gotten faster, the experience has gotten a WHOLE lot better. MS licensed Citrix's code years ago, and people have been complaining not just about ARD, but VNC in general has always been slower. I consider Apple's not having addressed this years ago a big failing (the solution isn't trivial, as IIRC they'd have to introduce a In fact, accessing a Windows VM via RDP on a WAN is a lot more responsive than using VNC to access the underlying Mac on a gigabit LAN.Īccessing Linux via VNC tend to work a bit better, but still not quite as good as RDP. VNC is almost-usable for GUI work on a 100mbps LAN, while RDP works well on a 1.5mbps WAN. the screen sharing goes) is completely miserableĬompared to MSFT's RDP, even after tweaking the relevant settings. The VNC protocol (ARD uses bog-standard VNC a.f.a. Speaking only about the performance perspective, I've done a lot of benchmarking with this. ![]() $85 is a lot of cash for something that other OS vendors provide for free. Is ARD comparable to RDP in terms of performance, usage, etc.? From my perspective, it would have to be a lot better than VNC in just about every respect to justify the cost.
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