Monday, October 25, 2004

Remote Desktop Bandwidth Usage

Joel on Software - Discussion


Hi all,

I'm planning to use Remote Desktop (integrated in the Windows XP box at work) to access my Box at home (also Windows XP).

Only one question remains: Does anybody know what kind of bandwidth a Remote Desktop connection uses? I don't want to fire it up and find that it slows down everybody's connection, and have the IT department hunt me down and hang me.

We have a 10Mbit connection to the internet.
Normally Not Anon
Thursday, October 21, 2004
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We have a 2MB connection here. I use RD often and it doesn't seem to affect the connection at all. You should be fine.
NickH
Thursday, October 21, 2004
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I ve got a 64k ISDN line and no problem. Works great.

I've even used it with 3 connections at once. It worked but wasn't the best.

Liam
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Thursday, October 21, 2004
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The thing about remote desktop is that it is actually sending GDI commands across the network, not full bitmaps. So it should have a very minimal impact on overall network performance (provided you aren't trying to do something silly like play Doom3 on the remote computer which I'm not even sure would work).
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Thursday, October 21, 2004

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