Hello

When I use 8-bit color it takes me about 60-70 seconds to connect over VPN to pc's on my work network and even then its basically unusable, if I use 16-bit color it takes me from clicking connect about 30 seconds (same amount of time that it takes my colleagues at 8-bit) to log me in, and fully load applications that I have open (generally SQL or Visual Studio).

Technical details as such
Work OS: Windows 7 Enterprise / Server 2008 (all up to date with service packs etc...)
Home OS: Windows 7 Ultimate (up to date with service packs and updates)
Home/Work Connections for VPN: 4096kbps Down / 640kbps Up Adsl
Home VPN via normal windows VPN connection
Work VPN via a mikrotik router.
RDTabs Version 2.1.24

I would like to be able to use 8-bit for the extra speed but just cant.

Thanks in advance

That's a strange issue. I use 8-bit myself sometimes for the same reason and can say that it works very well for me, so I'm thinking it must be something specific with your setup. Maybe there is a display driver issue. As in, it's not a bandwidth issue, but a latency on the machine itself.

I mean some cases with 8-bit I just stare at the welcome screen. I dont know if its smaller packets vs larger packets (forgive me if I'm wrong with the networking side) could it be a packet size issue ?

If display data had to be byte-aligned somehow to the underlying IP packets, that might be the case, but I highly doubt it. I don't see why any design decision would be made that only X number of display data bytes can be in any one IP packet. Plus, RDP and TCP/IP are at different OSI layers, so there is no design scenario where it would make sense to even try.

I'm leaning towards display driver or something along those lines. Can you try setting windows into 8-bit mode locally on your source and destination PCs and see if you get sluggish performance anywhere along the line?

Hi

I'll test as soon as I can, cant interrupt my connection at the moment. turns out I'm running at 32bit, lowest I can go in my settings is 16 bit.