RDP session is slow

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So I am connecting to my work computer from home and the Remote Desktop Connection app is annoyingly slow.

I pinged my work pc from my computer and it returned at a reasonable time of 50ms~ with 0 loss. I then attempted to ping my home IP from the RDP session and it timed out every time. Not sure if this might help anyone come to a conclusion but hopefully it does. Note I am also using it in conjunction with Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client if that helps at all. Work is Windows 7 and Home is Windows 8

I attempted switching off my home pc's firewall but that did nothing.

Any assistance would be great, surely a setting in the RDP file might make it run a little smoother.

I'll edit this post with further attempts at fixes below

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Depends on your bandwidth more than ping response time. One thing I found greatly improves RDP in my experience is to set the host computers background to solid color black. – Joe C
I'm not seeing the programming connection here... – David Hoelzer
@JoeC didn't work for me :( but good tip anyway the image i had as my desktop was longer to load thats certain. – SharpCode

4 Answers

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Did three things and now RDP is running screaming fast:

  1. Change RDP settings:

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  1. Run the RDP session and connect to the remote machine

  2. Find mstcsc.exe in the Task Manager and and set priority to Realtime

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Our remote chain is Citrix then RDP, target machine is Win 10. I solved this issue by changing the mouse pointer scheme to None and disabling the pointer shadow.

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I installed Ubuntu server XRDP. Went through Windows and terribly slowed down. I solved this problem. In the /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini file, change crypt_level=high to crypt_level=None

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In Windows 10. Go to Display Settings >> Scale and Layout >> Set the custom scale to 120 [you may need to experiment, try 110 - 150]

After that log in to your Remote Desktop, it should adjust the resolution and scaling factors.

It gave me a faster experience. If you need more then follow the answer of Mr. B