Mac mini and screen sharing

[Rapsuperhase]

Hey,
I use my Mac mini, which is plugged to my TV, as my media server. I also use the screen sharing function (via Wifi) to control the mini. What I noticed is that everything looks kind of blurry. When I change from adaptive to full quality the screen becomes a little bit sharper but not so much to compensate the lower speed. I mean the quality is ok when I use screen sharing for some minutes. But after 15 minutes I have to stop because it gets so annoying. I was wondering if this is normal or if it's likely that my WiFi connection is too slow. I need to add I control my mini with a MB Air (2011), which is connected to a Router. And this router is only capable to transfer up to 300 Mbit/s via WiFi.
Thank you.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

If your Mini is connected to a 1080p display you're probably seeing artifacts of the image scaling from 1920x1080 down to your MBA resolution (1280x800 or 1344x756 depending on whether it's an 11" or 13"). Basically unavoidable.

 

[mcnallym]

I get the same thing when going from my MBPro to my Mac Mini. mini is connected to a 24" LED Cinema Display @ 1920x1200 and the MBPro is 1440x900 and is blurry.

Screen Sharing from my Mini to the MBPro is fine.

As previous poster said is just an issue of putting a downscaling the larger display onto the lower res screen.

 

[blanka]

You can also use Chicken of the VNC or something like that instead of Screen Sharing, but then you have to scroll.
I find Screen sharing downscaled acceptable, but hey, I run it over gigabit too. Which you should do. Mini and MBP are both having Gbit ports.

 

[drsox]

Try using VNC instead. ( http://www.realvnc.com ). I found that to be much better then any screen sharing or remote desktop etc etc. I'm also using WiFi from my MBA at 300mbps. It's OK - I'm using it to manage the iTunes on the connected device.