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Thanks for thinking about it. My hardware at work is excellent and the
software are all network based (at least for license purposes). I don't
have to wait for much. This stuff is paid for by the company. At home I've
got a lot less horsepower and I'm happy to let the work machine do the number
crunching ... I just want a picture of the screen. Maybe this is not
available yet at my bandwidth. AF.
"Shenan Stanley" wrote:
> lsk7777 wrote:
> > At work I have ProEng, AutoCAD, MasterCAM and a couple of other
> > modelling and analysis tools. Remote desktop has worked great for
> > email, file access, Word/Excel and so forth, but it slows desperately
> > with the graphics intensive programs. Is the only answer more
> > bandwidth (currently cable) or are there other approaches so that I
> > can actually work from home on these packages? Thanks.
>
> You could try using something like "UltraVNC", but my assumption is that for
> application like that (where lots of processor and graphics power are
> needed) - you really should have two copies of it installed. One at home
> and one at work. I cannot imagine trying (or why you would try) to run
> something like 3D Studio over a remote session. On most systems, a great
> project will look slow sitting in front of the machine - but taking that and
> streaming all over the internet/network down to another machine?
>
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