Running tasks remotely, via VNC?

Thu Jun 19 18:17:31 UTC 2014

Hi,

Gigabit connections, much like extremely fast PCs, do not necessarily translate into low-latency. Indeed, the lowest latency (“least flaky”) we get is consistently via old-school protocols such as serial/parallel cables. My suggestion would be to use this instead of LAN. Another idea is to use very long cables (I used 30m powered serial cable before, went fine), or attaching equipment in duplicates. For example, you can easily attach 2 computer mice and 2 keyboards to a single PC; e-prime (or Windows) doesn’t care where key-strokes come from. Then, if you add a secondary screen, you’ll have solid and extremely stable solution. Personally, I like my e-prime computers not to be connected to any LAN whatsoever.

I think there have been people around who use e-prime on remote desktop. Not sure what their experience is, but I (and more importantly, your reviewers) might find it doubtful that high precision can be achieved. Of course, that doesn’t matter for many paradigms :)

Best,

Michiel

From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ted Snyder
Sent: 19 June 2014 19:17
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Subject: Running tasks remotely, via VNC?

E-Prime Experts,

Do any of you have experience using VNC--or similar protocols--to run your tasks remotely?

I work in a sleep lab, and we'd like to use E-Prime to generate stimuli while our participants are sleeping. We have computers in the participant's rooms running the script, but we need to control the task without entering the room and disturbing their sleep. We've experimented with Remote Desktop and various VNC clients, but they all seem pretty flaky--despite everything being on the same LAN and connected by gigabit ethernet.

Do you have any recommendations for running E-Prime tasks remotely? Any suggestions for tackling this problem?

Thanks for your help and expertise.

Regards,

-Ted Snyder

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