I am currently on a max 128 Mbps upload broadband plan ... but I do use Terminal Service from home a lot... wondering if anyone was using these plan (with 128m upload) and switched to unlimited upload speed (like one in Telecom) before and notice any difference in Terminal Service performance?
Check if you can remove interleaving on your connection - latency has a bigger impact on the responsiveness (and hence perceived speed) than pure upload speed (assuming you aren't redirecting printers, drives etc and copying files).
I'm assuming that your actual Terminal Server is on a better than 128k upload speed though.....
Terminal services with bitmap caching and no themes, 15bit colour will work quite happily over a 128k up connection.
I have a client in hawkes bay that has 3 branches. In total there are 16 rdp sessions connecting to an ms terminal server at the main branch. The total bandwidth bill for the main branch works out to be about 350-420mb a day (116kbps over 8 hours) With that theory, all of these 16 sessions could all happily work over a 128k connection. The low bandwidth is because the software they use is mainly outlook, and a physiotherapy management system so the bitmap caching works very well.
The sessions demmand more whenever the whole screen changes such when a new program is opened or users are surfing the web and a large portion of the screen changes. This is only for a few seconds and then its back down to almost idling again.
The reasons why they needed to go for the higher upload speed is because of the bursts, so that the users dont feel like its slow or lagging. They also have 2 printers at each branch so that goes through the net whenever someone prints. 256k would have been fine but there wasnt any option and full adsl upload speed was the step up from 128.
Anyhow, back to the question - which I have just read properly. - if you are connecting from home to your company office - no difference - if you are connecting from your office or remote location back to home - only a small difference in lag such as opening a new program that isnt bitmap cached, probably not worth the increase in cost for the upload speed if this is only why you need it.
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