Remote Desktop : Minimum Bandwidth requirements.

[Guest]

Learned friends.

Was wandering if anyone has done some network monitoring and optimisation
with remote desktop, and have worked out what the minimum bandwidth
requirements/throughput are for remote desktop.

I kow there are a kwillion variables such as screen settings, sounds, screen
motion etc, but I am thinking along the lines of a straight forward session
where a couple of admin windows are open, screen updates are average (ie. not
playing Quake), no sound or other optional requirements.

I would be happy with 256 colours etc. Just enough to get the job done.

I am asking this, as I am considering the possibility of deploying the
option to our support staff using their GPRS connectivity with mobile
phones.. But this would work only if the bandwidth usage/throughput (minimum
useful) fits within the pipe supplied by GPRS.

thanks for any help and time.
bruce

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

I can't speak to hard numbers but I have use the PocketPC Terminal Services Client (TSC) to connect
to my home XP Pro box running Remote Desktop over a 56 Kbps dial-up link and it worked just fine.
One thing you might consider is to disable the rendering of the remote PC desktop wallpaper while
connected with Remote Desktop and TSC. See this page for help with that...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html

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