Slow Connecting Over 3G

[dwtaylor]

I am able to connect and see the initial screen on my iPad 2 over 3G. However, the connection is extremely slow ... so much so it does not allow me to interact with the MacBook at all other than to send a keyboard shortcut to close a program or something. The program closes on the computer screen, but my iPad screen never updates.

Any ideas?

[raf]

It shouldn't be that slow. Do you experience the same behavior when connected within the same LAN?
Do you by chance have a big/multi-monitor setup? Try reducing your system resolution. Remoter 2.6 will include client-side scaling support which will help with big framebuffer cases.

Raf.

[dwtaylor]

I do not experience the same behavior when connected in the same LAN. I do not have a big or multi-monitor setup. I will attempt to reduce my system resolution, but like I said, I do not have the same issue when doing this over my LAN.

[raf]

If you don't have the problem while inside your LAN, then the problem is caused by your upstream bandwidth. Make sure you don't have any applications running that consume a lot of upstream (like bittorrent), or consider getting a QoS capable router (I use the Tomato firmware, which provides QoS).

Raf.

[dwtaylor]

I have a Verizon FIOS router with wireless capabilities. It has the latest firmware and the ports that are supposed to be open are. I have not had the opportunity to try away from my home with reduced color settings, but will try today.

[raf]

Well, you'd think FiOS would be fast enough. There's gotta be something wrong with your setup then. Remoter works exactly the same way wether you use it in your LAN or via 3G (it's transparent to Remoter); so any differences you experience are caused by the internet connection itself.

Try setting your Color Depth to 16BPP (if not set to that already)
Try reducing your resolution on your Mac (what version of OS X are you running?)

Raf.

[dwtaylor]

I have 10.6.8. I have attached the port forwarding that I added on my FiOS router. My color depth is already 16ppp.

[raf]

I have 10.6.8. I have attached the port forwarding that I added on my FiOS router. My color depth is already 16ppp.

The problem is not in your port-forwarding. If it was, you wouldn't be able to connect at all. The slowness is caused by bandwidth; which shouldn't be a problem on the FiOS end; but might be on the 3G side of things.
The Mac's ScreenSharing VNC implementation is not specially fast either. I find that connecting to my linux box (tightvnc) is a lot faster than connecting to my Macs. I still haven't tried Lion's implementation, but I doubt they would include any of the modern VNC encodings.

Raf.

[dwtaylor]

Would VNC over SSH HELP? What do I have to do to make that work?

[raf]

Would VNC over SSH HELP? What do I have to do to make that work?

No, that wouldn't help at all. It would actually hurt; since you would be adding a whole new transport layer on top of VNC. SSH is good for security, and for tunneling; but won't help in your case, unfortunately.

Raf.