Okay, you geniuses (genii?), I'm at wit's end here.
I terminal into work every day, right? Normal Microsoft RDP, and I'm running XP Pro.
Suddenly (starting maybe a week, week and a half ago), I've been having serious slowness issues over the RDP connection. But it's worse than that. When I don't have the RDP going, I can browse anywhere, and it's lightning fast. When the RDP is open, however, not only is it almost unusably slow (and it works in fits and jerks -- one second it'll be like I'm using my home computer and the next it either freezes completely or takes 5 seconds for each keystroke to appear), but it shares its slowness with all of my other internet connectivity. Close the RDP, the problem goes away.
I looked online, and saw one suggestion, which was to put a DisableTaskOffload flag on HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\services\tcpip\parameters and set it to 1. So I tried that and rebooted, and it seems to have no effect whatsoever.
It's making my work situation very problematic. Do you know of any recent updates or the like that could be causing this? I've never had this problem before.
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
Are you sure that your workplace's Internet connection is operating normally? Their connection isn't saturated or anything?
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
Has your client machine recently upgraded to a new RD version, perhaps?
Have you disabled/turned down color depth and other UI features?
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
My client machine hasn't changed. The host machine in the office is unlikely to be the problem, because I've tried terminalling in elsewhere, and the same problem exists.
A friend of mine suggested that the first thing I should do is install SP3. I'm using IE8, and she said that IE8 is supposed to insist that XP users upgrade to SP3. I never got that message, which makes her think that I have some major conflicts going on that installing SP3 might help. So I'm in the process of downloading that. <sigh>
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
Not a bad idea.
Could all of the host machines have undergone the same change at the same time? Or by "elsewhere" do you mean a totally separate network?