Tag Archives: remote desktop

Why Your RDP Session May Be Slow on a Fast LAN (The 56 Kbps Trap!)

Remote Desktop Connection Experience tab set to LAN (10 Mbps or higher) with all visual features enabled

Summary: My Remote Desktop session into an old ThinkPad got progressively laggier. Ping said the network was perfect (1ms between host and client with no variation). Performance counters said the server was idle. I was about a day away from buying replacement hardware out of frustration with the lag 😣. The actual cause was a dropdown in the Remote Desktop Connection Experience tab that had the connection set to a 56 Kbps modem profile. 💡 Setting it to LAN (10

Use your e-reader as a display for your computer

Over at Pocketables (one of my fav tech sites) they posted a nice little article asking Why are ereaders still stand-alone only devices? It is a valid question and if the Pebble watch is any indication, there is a lot of pent up demand for ultra-long lived devices using e-ink displays. If Pocketable’s premise was e-ink is good for a lot more than just reading books, and that the current ereaders should do more… then this along those lines, here