How do I speed up my Screen Sharing experience?

Hi. Apologies if this has already been answered, but I couldn't find post that matched. Anyway, I have set up Screen Sharing on my iMac so I can run it with my eMac (running Tiger 10.4.11). It all works fine except the response is a bit slow - that is to say the refresh rate doesn't make it workable if I'm working in image editing or whatever, in fact even just moving open windows around there's a noticeable lag in response time.
I think I should mention that both computers are networked via ethernet cables - not wirelessly - so the response is as good as I can get it at the moment.
I did hear somewhere that if I had an 'N' speed Router (as opposed to the standard 'G' speed) then this would improve the speed noticeably. Is that right? Also, my iMac is equipped with a 10/100/1000 Base T ethernet port, whereas my eMac is only the 10/100 variety. Will this make an 'N' speed router pointless. I just want to know before I waste money on something that'll make no difference really.
Thanks
Simon
Message was edited by: Simon Bramley

If you are using ethernet to ethernet connection, then 802.11g vs 802.11n WiFi does not matter.
The slowest ethernet connection will be the limiting factor, so the eMac's ethernet port is the controlling factor for transfer speeds.
If you want to experiment with a different VNC client and server, you might try installing Vine Server (aka OSXvnc) on the Mac to be controlled, and then use Chicken of the VNC as the client on the Mac you are sitting at. This pair of VNC client and server are very good at compressing the screen data to maximize network bandwidth.
The next trick you could try is to tell Chicken of the VNC to use less colors. CofVNC -> Connection -> Connection Profiles -> Default Profile -> Color. Try "Thousands of Colors" first, then maybe "256 Colors" although 256 is going to look very Andy Wohl'ish

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