I recently finally got through the struggle of connecting to a headless ubuntu box that I set up for running as a web cam/ weatherstation/ processing station that I am connecting to with a windows machine. The idea is that this is going to be an 'always on' machine, that I can pop into from windows over my LAN.
It took a while, but I eventually got it figured out and working, and initially it was working very well.. At some point today, when I connected to the machine, the refresh rate for the VNC client dropped to VERY slow speeds, in both Tiger and TightVNC. Now whenever I connect to the machine, the refresh rate is disappointingly slow.
I'm start the connection to the Ubuntu box via Putty, then issue the following commands via terminal:
x11vnc openssh-server
and after the server starts
x11vnc -usepw
I then log in using either TightVNC or TigerVNC. As I said previously, I was getting great connection speeds yesterday and the day before and even last night, but this AM, its slowed down to an unusable speed.
When I connect via Moba using RDP, I still get very good connection speed, but I prefer using TightVNC or TigerVNC so that I can always log into the same session. Thoughts? I haven't been able to find a similar issue of speeds dropping with no change in settings.
wiresharkand/ortcpdumpto watch the TCP/IP packets go back and forth. You won't see what's in the packets, but packet headers have a lot of info. – waltinator Jan 06 '18 at 22:05