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We have a very slow RDP session from NYC to India (500ms) and we are looking for a client that will withstand this latency.

What do you recommend in this circumstance? Is there a better remote desktop solution that handles this type of connection? Perhaps one that is optimised for satellite connections.

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SSH may be an option for some tasks. The command-line is much tolerant of latency.

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Maybe as a stopgap solution, but working over an ssh connection with bad latency is horrible and it's not giving the nice gui environment that is required. – kaerast Nov 18 '10 at 16:49
Anything will be somewhat "horrible" with high latency. I would say SSH is quite a bit less horrible than a gui in this situation since it is at least deterministic. But, if your application requires a gui interface then you have only two choices: fix the app, or fix the latency. Sorry about that. – JGurtz Nov 18 '10 at 17:59
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A better connection. Point. No client can fix that.

We have sometimes 600ms and people complain - line overlaod.

Basically, the latency is there. All input is delayed 500ms. A client can not magically handle that. This is like asking "I like driving faster than allowed, what car color will help me not getting tickets".

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+1. Network latency is network latency, nothing "software-y" you can do about it. – Antoine Benkemoun Nov 18 '10 at 16:32
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Since latency is the culprit there is not much an application can do to improve this.

The best bet is if you are using RDP then change the experience settings. Uncheck the allows for everything... "desktop background, font smoothing, visual styles, etc..." Also under local resources uncheck remote audio and under 'Display' display settings High Color 16bit.

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-1: using less bandwidth does not reduce latency, at 0.5 seconds delay, a GUI is pretty much unusable. – symcbean Nov 18 '10 at 16:04
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Everyone's right, imho. If you feel like trying anyway in my experience the best is Teamviewer or Rammina.

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