Remote desktop broadband requirements in UK

[AtW]

I used RDP over 56k modem, slow but works - 1 Mbit+ should do the trick, ideally with latency below 50 ms.

A lot of GUI "eye candy" can be turned off for RDP session or altogether on remote computer.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I used RDP over 56k modem, slow but works - 1 Mbit+ should do the trick, ideally with latency below 50 ms.

A lot of GUI "eye candy" can be turned off for RDP session or altogether on remote computer.

RDP on anything over 2MB and it is as if your at the machine.....

[AtW]

RDP on anything over 2MB and it is as if your at the machine.....

Aye, it's suprisingly efficient product for Microsoft... probably bought some company who did the work.

[Sysman]

Aye, it's suprisingly efficient product for Microsoft... probably bought some company who did the work.

Don't they do that with everything decent that they bring out?

[Scoobos]

I think the opposite tbh, bought in is crap - in house is great

[VectraMan]

Aye, it's suprisingly efficient product for Microsoft... probably bought some company who did the work.

Wasn't it Citrix? Who did what became Terminal Server.

Depends what you're doing of course. Notepad, works great. Testing real time graphics and video processing applications, not so much.

[vetran]

20k to South Africa, lots of tea breaks but usable, 50K+ with no eye candy and it was no worse than 1MB to the states.

But as mentioned it aint 'real time'

[AtW]

Don't they do that with everything decent that they bring out?

Yes but usually they totally bloat code over and kill performance.

[AtW]

Wasn't it Citrix? Who did what became Terminal Server.

Supposedly not - Remote Desktop Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My guess it was done by old skool people who knew about performance and realised it needs to be really fast over tulipy 33.6k modem connections.