Can Anyone please help??? Remote Desktop via VPN is extremely slo

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I find it hard to believe that not one other person is having the same issue.
I connect to my work pc (which is running XP Pro) from my home pc running XP
Home via a VPN connection. No matter what I do or try, my connection is slow
and gets slower the longer I remain connected remotely. I have tried
EVERYTHING to tweak this friggin connection (including using the IP address
rather than remote pc name & disabling all properties except the essential
ones) , but to no avail. This is really starting to piss me off, Microsoft!
I have a 6 meg high speed connection from home, so I have plenty of
bandwidth and I've also tried increasing the vitual memory paging file, but
again to no avail. I work from home quite a bit, and I need all the
processing speed to work! Can someone please HELP?!!!
 
Stacey said:
I find it hard to believe that not one other person is having the same
issue.
I connect to my work pc (which is running XP Pro) from my home pc running
XP
Home via a VPN connection. No matter what I do or try, my connection is
slow
and gets slower the longer I remain connected remotely. I have tried
EVERYTHING to tweak this friggin connection (including using the IP
address
rather than remote pc name & disabling all properties except the essential
ones) , but to no avail. This is really starting to piss me off,
Microsoft!
I have a 6 meg high speed connection from home, so I have plenty of
bandwidth and I've also tried increasing the vitual memory paging file,
but
again to no avail. I work from home quite a bit, and I need all the
processing speed to work! Can someone please HELP?!!!
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You indicate that you have a 6MB connection but this does not tell the true
story. What is your upload and download speed of your connection ??? The 6MB
would typically be the download speed. Once you have this information then
you can determine if you have a speed problem related to the connection
speed or a VPN issue.
 
Hi Robert,
Thank you for responding. I just ran quite a few bandwidth tests on my
home pc using different test providers to obtain both upload & download
speeds and the results were pretty consistant in each. The tests revealed
that my download speed is approximately between 5.5 to 6.5 megs and upload
speed was either 465 Kbps or 466 Kbps. So assuming these results are
accurate, does this indicate that my issue is most likely with the VPN rather
than the connection speed? And if so.....is there anything I can do to
determine what the issue may be and how to correct it? I realize that I
should expect some minor latency in performance when connecting remotely, but
what I'm exoeriencing goes well beyond minor latency / lagging. Also, since
my remote work pc is running Windows XP Pro, is it possible I can use Remote
Desktop Web Connection instead of a VPN connection? Again, any help you can
provide would be greatly appreciated!
 
Hi Robert,
Thank you for responding. I just ran quite a few bandwidth tests on my
home pc using different test providers to obtain both upload & download
speeds and the results were pretty consistant in each. The tests revealed
that my download speed is approximately between 5.5 to 6.5 megs and upload
speed was either 465 Kbps or 466 Kbps. So assuming these results are
accurate, does this indicate that my issue is most likely with the VPN rather
than the connection speed? And if so.....is there anything I can do to
determine what the issue may be and how to correct it? I realize that I
should expect some minor latency in performance when connecting remotely, but
what I'm exoeriencing goes well beyond minor latency / lagging. Also, since
my remote work pc is running Windows XP Pro, is it possible I can use Remote
Desktop Web Connection instead of a VPN connection? Again, any help you can
provide would be greatly appreciated!
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Why RDWC? You could use just RDC.
Can you describe in detail what exactly you are "exoeriencing"? Then someone
would be able to provide more precise feedback/help.
 
Hi Peter,

Ok, here's what is happening.....I've set up RD from my home pc running
Windows XP Home to connect to my work pc running Windows XP Pro and I have no
problems connecting remotely. My home pc is on a high speed cable connection
with plenty of bandwidth (downloads @ 6.5 megs and uploads @ 466 Kbps). My
work pc is also on a highspeed connection though it's bandwidth is a little
less (downloads @ 1.5 megs and uploads @ 786 Kbps). With that said, the
issue is that whenever I connect remotely from my home pc to my work pc via
VPN, I immediately notice a latency in speed on my work pc, and the longer I
remain remorely connected the latency / lagging becomes worse. I actually
timed the lag in speed once and it literally took over 7 minutes to open an
Excel spreadsheet then took over 10 minutes to close it. I ended up erasing
& reformatting the entire hard-drive on my home pc, reinstalled Windows XP,
then created the VPN network connection to my work pc again and remoted in.
This seemed to help tremendously, but the speed is still much to slow and
gets slower the longer I remain remoted in. I really can not efficiently /
effectively work from home with the latency I'm experiencing. Any
suggestions? Would increasing the bandwidth on either my home pc or work pc
help? Thanks!
 
Hi Peter,
Ok, here's what is happening.....I've set up RD from my home pc running
Windows XP Home to connect to my work pc running Windows XP Pro and I have no
problems connecting remotely. My home pc is on a high speed cable connection
with plenty of bandwidth (downloads @ 6.5 megs and uploads @ 466 Kbps). My
work pc is also on a highspeed connection though it's bandwidth is a little
less (downloads @ 1.5 megs and uploads @ 786 Kbps). With that said, the
issue is that whenever I connect remotely from my home pc to my work pc via
VPN, I immediately notice a latency in speed on my work pc, and the longer I
remain remorely connected the latency / lagging becomes worse. I actually
timed the lag in speed once and it literally took over 7 minutes to open an
Excel spreadsheet then took over 10 minutes to close it. I ended up erasing
& reformatting the entire hard-drive on my home pc, reinstalled Windows XP,
then created the VPN network connection to my work pc again and remoted in.
This seemed to help tremendously, but the speed is still much to slow and
gets slower the longer I remain remoted in. I really can not efficiently /
effectively work from home with the latency I'm experiencing. Any
suggestions? Would increasing the bandwidth on either my home pc or work pc
help? Thanks!
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Thank you for explanation. The simple answer is don't.
Do not map drives over VPN. Work with excel remotely, i.e. on remote
machine, or use RDC to transfer excel file to a local PC (you did not say
how big it was), work on it locally, then RDC it back. MS does a lot of
network chatting with drives. Depending on directory content it might take
ages to open or close files over VPN mapped drives.
And you did not say how big network latency was (ping from host to remote).
 
Thank you for explanation. The simple answer is don't.
Do not map drives over VPN. Work with excel remotely, i.e. on remote
machine, or use RDC to transfer excel file to a local PC (you did not say
how big it was), work on it locally, then RDC it back. MS does a lot of
network chatting with drives. Depending on directory content it might take
ages to open or close files over VPN mapped drives.
And you did not say how big network latency was (ping from host to remote).
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Hi Stacey. Not trying to hijack your thread but I am having similar
experiences
with slowness. Took me 3 hours to copy a 400mb image file from the
Host to my Local pc using RDC over VPN. My Host does have a mapped drive
as well as my local computer. I do not copy from or to these mapped drives
but they are there. I also have the need to open EXCEL on the Host and work
with it remotely. I do have the need to copy/paste a word or excel file back
and
forth.

Please let me and other viewers know if you were able to resolve your issues.

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Question for Peter:

What the heck is RDC good for if you can't do these things over VPN?

Thanks,
KBR591
 
Hi Stacey. Not trying to hijack your thread but I am having similar
experiences
with slowness. Took me 3 hours to copy a 400mb image file from the
Host to my Local pc using RDC over VPN. My Host does have a mapped drive
as well as my local computer. I do not copy from or to these mapped drives
but they are there. I also have the need to open EXCEL on the Host and work
with it remotely. I do have the need to copy/paste a word or excel file back
and
forth.

Please let me and other viewers know if you were able to resolve your issues.
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Which things?

Copy a file over VPN, yes you can but it will be slow (as your internet
connection).

Copy/paste word or excel file between remote and host? You can do that but
why?
The whole idea of remote computing is to do most of work on the remote side,
that way you have fast access to your remote files. So use excel on your
remote machine.
 
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