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Is it possible to completely disable RDP compression? If so, how? We are

currently using RDP ver.5.2 & 6.0

 

Thanks.

 

J

Guest Helge Klein
Posted

Re: RDP Compression

 

I do not think that disabling RDP compression is possible.

 

Just out of curiosity: Why do you want to do that? To unload the CPU?

 

Helge

 

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On 28 Sep., 00:03, Julio <Ju...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to completely disable RDP compression? If so, how? We are

> currently using RDP ver.5.2 & 6.0

>

> Thanks.

>

> J

Posted

Re: RDP Compression

 

The reason I need to do that is because we are testing RDP traffic on our WAN

and are using a WAN optimization device that requires us to disable the

compression if possible.

 

"Helge Klein" wrote:

> I do not think that disabling RDP compression is possible.

>

> Just out of curiosity: Why do you want to do that? To unload the CPU?

>

> Helge

>

> ==================

> Please visit my blog:

> http://it-from-inside.blogspot.com

> ==================

>

> On 28 Sep., 00:03, Julio <Ju...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> > Is it possible to completely disable RDP compression? If so, how? We are

> > currently using RDP ver.5.2 & 6.0

> >

> > Thanks.

> >

> > J

>

>

>

Posted

Re: RDP Compression

 

Hi,

 

I would recommend you contact riverbed and ask them if

they *actually* claim to optimize RDP applications at a

deep level. For regular business apps RDP is already

highly optimized with intelligent caching and compression.

 

As you most likely already know, RDP benefits from any

device that smooths out the traffic flow, reduces latency,

gives priority to RDP traffic, guarantees minimum bandwidth

for each session, etc.

 

There are opportunities to optimize RDP traffic if they wanted

to. For example, in a case where large files are transferred

over RDP, or video/audio streaming, they could cache this on

their device and thus avoid transferring more than once.

Another potential would be to cache bitmaps so that these

would only be transferred over the WAN once, but then it

would need to take over the job of generating bitmap

hashes and instructing each client which cache cell to store it in.

 

Doing the above is complex and would require substantial

investment. They would need to license the protocol, program

their hardware to decrypt/decompress/compress/encrypt (unless

they developed a software piece that ran on the TS) the

stream, examine the traffic for file transfers, video playback,

bitmaps, etc. And if they accomplished the above the

product would likely only benefit a small subset of TS installs

which may or may not be enough to justify development costs.

 

If they have done even a portion of the optimizing techniques

for RDP I describe above I am certain they would be more than

happy to tell you about and rightly so.

 

-TP

 

Julio wrote:

> Is it possible to completely disable RDP compression? If so, how? We

> are currently using RDP ver.5.2 & 6.0

>

> Thanks.

>

> J

Posted

Re: RDP Compression

 

I forgot to mention that in the past you could disable

compression in older versions of the client. The setting

for it is still in the .rdp file. Open it up in notepad and

change the 1 to a 0.

 

I am not sure if the compression setting is actually

honored or ignored in the latest clients.

 

-TP

 

Julio wrote:

> Is it possible to completely disable RDP compression? If so, how? We

> are currently using RDP ver.5.2 & 6.0

>

> Thanks.

>

> J

Posted

Re: RDP Compression

 

Thanks for the great info "TP".

 

"TP" wrote:

> I forgot to mention that in the past you could disable

> compression in older versions of the client. The setting

> for it is still in the .rdp file. Open it up in notepad and

> change the 1 to a 0.

>

> I am not sure if the compression setting is actually

> honored or ignored in the latest clients.

>

> -TP

>

> Julio wrote:

> > Is it possible to completely disable RDP compression? If so, how? We

> > are currently using RDP ver.5.2 & 6.0

> >

> > Thanks.

> >

> > J

>

  • 8 months later...
Guest Jason Anderson
Posted

RDP Optimization

 

RDP Optimization

 

 

 

There is a company called Expand Networks that has a unique solution to improving the performance of RDP, Citrix and other thin clients, especially useful in environments with alot of users.

 

http://www.expand.com/Products/Free-Evaluation.aspx

  • 3 months later...
Guest ascom99
Posted

Re: RDP Compression

 

TP,

 

I found these notes:

"

1. It is possible to turn off compression on XP-64

2. MS has a hot fix it shares that when applied to the XP-32 desktop it will

behave similar to its XP-64 bit counterpart.

"

But I do not know the number of the fix. Do you have any info ?

 

 

"TP" wrote:

> I forgot to mention that in the past you could disable

> compression in older versions of the client. The setting

> for it is still in the .rdp file. Open it up in notepad and

> change the 1 to a 0.

>

> I am not sure if the compression setting is actually

> honored or ignored in the latest clients.

>

> -TP

>

> Julio wrote:

> > Is it possible to completely disable RDP compression? If so, how? We

> > are currently using RDP ver.5.2 & 6.0

> >

> > Thanks.

> >

> > J

>

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