RE: Does using lower color depth improve connection?

[Phillip Pi <ph...@ap...>]

Interesting. I guess there is a very tiny improvement that it is not 
noticeable. I was expecting like a 50% improvement. Was I expecting too 
much?


On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Sharma, Shashi wrote:

> I dont know about your case, but I definetly get speed improvement on using
> 8bit. I have 
> a video camera on the unix tool and with 8 bit it gives 3-4 frame per second
> and with 24-bit it gives 1-1.5 frame per second.
> -shashi
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Pi [mailto:ph...@ap...]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:26 PM
> To: vnc...@li...
> Subject: Does using lower color depth improve connection?
> 
> 
> I am using TightVNC and I can't seem to tell the speed difference between
> 24-bit and 8-bit color depths (both are at 1024x768 resolutions with
> Gnome) even with the best compression enabled.
> 
> In theory, shouldn't I notice a speed improvement? I am trying this on a
> T1 connection (less than 50ms pings and about 18 hops). Am I missing 
> something?
> 
> Thank you in advance. :)