RDP session is slow

Question

So I am connecting to my work computer from home and the Remote Desktop Connection app is annoyingly slow.

I pinged my work pc from my computer and it returned at a reasonable time of 50ms~ with 0 loss. I then attempted to ping my home IP from the RDP session and it timed out every time. Not sure if this might help anyone come to a conclusion but hopefully it does. Note I am also using it in conjunction with Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client if that helps at all. Work is Windows 7 and Home is Windows 8

I attempted switching off my home pc's firewall but that did nothing.

Any assistance would be great, surely a setting in the RDP file might make it run a little smoother.

I'll edit this post with further attempts at fixes below

Answer 1

Did three things and now RDP is running screaming fast:

1. Change RDP settings:

2. Run the RDP session and connect to the remote machine

3. Find mstcsc.exe in the Task Manager and and set priority to Realtime

Answer 2

I installed Ubuntu server XRDP. Went through Windows and terribly slowed down. I solved this problem. In the /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini file, change crypt_level=high to crypt_level=None

Answer 3

In Windows 10. Go to Display Settings >> Scale and Layout >> Set the custom scale to 120 [you may need to experiment, try 110 - 150]

After that log in to your Remote Desktop, it should adjust the resolution and scaling factors.

It gave me a faster experience. If you need more then follow the answer of Mr. B

Answer 4

Our remote chain is Citrix then RDP, target machine is Win 10. I solved this issue by changing the mouse pointer scheme to None and disabling the pointer shadow.