Average Bandwidth on Terminal Server connection

Jam

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Sep 10, 2003, 11:44:26 AM9/10/03

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How average bandwidth needs any client connected to a terminal server on
Windows2000Server and on Windows2003Server???

stevta [MSFT]

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Sep 10, 2003, 1:13:42 PM9/10/03

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Bandwidth between the two will be equivalent.
Redirect video or audio would change the bandwidth
significantly.

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Cláudio Rodrigues

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Sep 10, 2003, 2:42:45 PM9/10/03

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Estimate around 20-25kbps per user. If they print for example this will
change a lot. :-)

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Bruce Sanderson

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Sep 17, 2003, 8:09:40 PM9/17/03

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How did you arrive at this number? I suspect it's correct (or at least a
good starting point), but I have at least one person here that is trying to
convince my organisation that Terminal Services is useless because a T1 link
will only support 1.5 Terminal Services session. This is based on the
article at www.eecs.harvard.edu/~margo/papers/nt99-tse/tse.html that
concludes (among other things):

"While RDP is efficient for simple operations like typing and mouse
movement, more sophisticated user interaction like web browsing and document
scrolling can generate surprisingly high network loads. On 10Mbps Ethernet,
this behavior can limit concurrent use to as few as 10 sessions."

This person, is saying that since a T1 link is about 1.5 MB per second and
each user will require 1 Mb/Sec, this means 1.5 users on a T1 link, which,
from my experience is absurd!

Any articles or information you can refer to me to on this subject will be
appreciated.

I sincerly hope that no-one will take the above "conclusion" as "the way it
is"!

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Vera Noest [MVP]

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Sep 18, 2003, 5:47:13 PM9/18/03

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Can't find any documentation right now, but we run with up to 4
concurrent users on a 128 kbps ISDN line. I can assure you that
our users do more then typing in notepad ;-)

I do remote administration from home over a 19 kbps dial-up line
(OK, I admit that that is a bit slow).

Claudios estimate fits quite well with my experiences (600
concurrent connections over a variety of links). We make an
exception for video-conferencing though, since that takes too much
bandwidth.

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Dean Cunningham

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Sep 19, 2003, 7:20:10 AM9/19/03

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I remember citrix quotes of about 25kb per sessiion for RDP, when selling
there product, so it is probably less than that :-)

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