Re: rdesktop mouse movement events consume excessive bandwidth

  * Windows remote desktop (mstsc.exe) does not use the same level of 
bandwidth, never.
  * I'm already using the rdp experience and compression.

Sorry, I should have supplied this in my initial e-mail, the command I'm 
running is as follows:
{{{
rdesktop -u <username> -d <domain> -z -x -P -f -a 16 -g 100% -0 -T 
<window_title> <hostname_to_connect_to>
}}}

-------- Original Message --------
From: Beaumont, Kevin <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed 02 Jun 2010 03:50:21 AM EDT
To: [email protected]
Cc:
Subject: Re: [rdesktop-users] rdesktop mouse movement events consume
excessivebandwidth

Does Windows remote desktop (mstsc.exe) use the same level of bandwidth,
do we know?


-------- Original Message --------
From: Christopher Roberts <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed 02 Jun 2010 04:13:57 AM EDT
To: [email protected]
Cc:
Subject: Re: [rdesktop-users] 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.)

--
Chris Roberts

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