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Remote Desktop throttles internet connection

I work remotely from home for several hours each week. In the last few weeks, my remote desktop connection has been virtually unusable for productive development. Both my workplace and my home connection are through the same ISP (Shaw Cable).

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"RDP is not an encrypted protocol before v6 (see wikipedia).

However, if you're running at full color, with v6 or later, both the higher image quality and secondary encryption will impact you.

Also - if you're connecting to a Terminal Services box (rather than just your desktop), the server may be overloaded, and your throughput may be a secondary symptom of that.

So - my advice would be to lower the color setting, and make sure you're not forwarding anything in either direction (drives, sounds, printers, etc) you don't need.

You may also look at running wireshark or similar to see if any throttling is happening."