Seems to be an RDP limitation and not an SMB limitation as I know SMB is plenty quick.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:49:41 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ok - so i bet this is a mystery no one has an answer to I like the feature of RDP where your local drives show up on the remote machine, which is what I think Jay is describing.� I use it all the time for documents.� I never gave any thought to how it works or what its limitations are.� Maybe it tunnels SMB through the RDP connection.� I just tried it with a large file, and yes it's slow for me too.� Barely 1 meg. They have these things called flash drives, you know. � And there is this amazing thing called Dropbox. � The only part of this I would use RDP for is to log into the remote computer and upload the file to Dropbox or send it via some variant of FTP to a server at the office. � � From: CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 2:10 PM To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] ok - so i bet this is a mystery no one has an answer to � � So, i've got a computer at our office on a one gig fiber connection. i have a computer on a cable modem. � I'm trying to copy a 75 meg file using remote desktop from the office to my home. � The office computer has symmetric up and down - it's one gig fiber. My home computer (download) is 60 meg down 4 meg up (charter cable) � Studying office network traffic it's only moving at 1.5 meg.� � Why isn't it going faster?� Is there is a tweakable way? � �
