Re: rdesktop mouse movement events consume excessive bandwidth

On Wednesday 02 Jun 2010, fermulator wrote:
> I've been using rdesktop for a while now, v1.60 latest on Ubuntu 9.04.  
> My biggest (and only) complaint/problem with it is that when "mouse
> movement events" are enabled (default), this consumes A LOT of upload
> bandwidth.  For me, when I'm connected to a Windows machine via
> rdesktop, and I "jiggle" the mouse, it will consume all available upload
> bandwidth (50KB/s+).  Even in normal usage, it will consume on average
> 20-30KB/s, and still peak to the max 50KB/s.  This does not go over well
> when other users in the house are trying to use the Internet (especially
> if they're playing a game, or talking on a VoIP phone...)
>
> Disabling mouse movement events (-m) is a workaround, but not really
> acceptable because almost everything in Windows relies on movements
> events (highlighting text, dragging windows, mousing over a sub-area for
> scrolling, etc.).
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this problem, and is it easily
> resolved?

The following two switches may help you:

   -z: enable rdp compression
   -x: RDP5 experience (m[odem 28.8], b[roadband], l[an] or hex nr.)

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Chris Roberts

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