Real life experience needed: How fast is Win 2008 RemoteApp overthe Internet?

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Hi,

I'm in charge of planning a new network for our company. Because of
limited financial and human resources our idea is to run it completely
with W2K8 Terminal Services RemoteApp.

At the moment we got one headquarter and two independent branch offices
connected over the internet via VPN:

- Headquarter: 10 Workstations, 2 MBit SDSL (2000/2000)
- Branch 1: 5 Workstations, 1 MBit SDSL (1000/1000)
- Branch 2: 2 Workstations, 128 kBit ISDN (128/128) (rural area, no DSL!)

I already installed a W2K3 TS at HQ and people in HQ are working over
100 MBit LAN without problems.

My plan is to deploy a W2K8 TS at the HQ, so the branch offices can work
with published RemoteApps over the internet.

Question: Can anyone provide me with some real life experience with
Windows 2008 TS RemoteApp over the internet:

- how much bandwidth is approx. needed for one session?
- is it fast enough for 'comfortable' working (office apps only)?
- how does printing affect the performance?
- pros/cons?

What is your experience?

Regards,
Lejf
 
Re: Real life experience needed: How fast is Win 2008 RemoteApp over the Internet?

Re: Real life experience needed: How fast is Win 2008 RemoteApp over the Internet?

it's always difficult to say. What else is going over the VPN's at the
time? Since you have no control over the internet the only way to know is
to test. I can say that people do this type of thing quite a bit, running
TS over the internet. So many variables make it difficult, if not
impossible, to determine this over a newsgroup. Do the admin thing and
test, test, test. then you'll know for sure.

--
Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

"Lejf Diecks" <bastard_operator@gmx.li> wrote in message
news:6gnlneFgb2lgU1@mid.uni-berlin.de...
> Hi,
>
> I'm in charge of planning a new network for our company. Because of
> limited financial and human resources our idea is to run it completely
> with W2K8 Terminal Services RemoteApp.
>
> At the moment we got one headquarter and two independent branch offices
> connected over the internet via VPN:
>
> - Headquarter: 10 Workstations, 2 MBit SDSL (2000/2000)
> - Branch 1: 5 Workstations, 1 MBit SDSL (1000/1000)
> - Branch 2: 2 Workstations, 128 kBit ISDN (128/128) (rural area, no
> DSL!)
>
> I already installed a W2K3 TS at HQ and people in HQ are working over 100
> MBit LAN without problems.
>
> My plan is to deploy a W2K8 TS at the HQ, so the branch offices can work
> with published RemoteApps over the internet.
>
> Question: Can anyone provide me with some real life experience with
> Windows 2008 TS RemoteApp over the internet:
>
> - how much bandwidth is approx. needed for one session?
> - is it fast enough for 'comfortable' working (office apps only)?
> - how does printing affect the performance?
> - pros/cons?
>
> What is your experience?
>
> Regards,
> Lejf
 
RE: Real life experience needed: How fast is Win 2008 RemoteApp over t

RE: Real life experience needed: How fast is Win 2008 RemoteApp over t

Hi,

> - how much bandwidth is approx. needed for one session?

it absolutely depends on what applications you use, to be more precise how
often for example your screen changes and how often those applications have
to send back and forth date from client.

> - is it fast enough for 'comfortable' working (office apps only)?

For Office applications - if you optimize them for work on TS (check google
for how to d so) it is more the comfortable as long as you have anything on
about ISDN line (64 Kbiit/s) - thats real life exp.

> - how does printing affect the performance?

You decide so to say - you can prio the traffic - whethe for Display or
Printing in Windows 2008. Check the DISPLAY DATA prioritization setting. It
really is a good one. If your users are "Power Printer's" yet the want the
comfort you can set it the way that print jobs are a bit delayed yet they
feel great working, even or also over the Internet.

> - pros/cons?

With Windows 2008 you can really do nothing wrong. I love it and have done
some really good implementations with it - and both on performance and
features is is top. You have to dig a wee bit on it but it is worth it.

Few Tipps for the Remote Locations.

- try to choose proper Display Depth
- Make sure that user if at all surf the Web vie TS, if they will do it via
Local PC's it will eat up the traffic
- Run TCP View on those hosts if the performance is back and check if some
other App's are consuming the traffic.

Good luck,
Alex Yushchenko a.k.a. Dr.Conti
http://www.pubforum.net

"Lejf Diecks" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm in charge of planning a new network for our company. Because of
> limited financial and human resources our idea is to run it completely
> with W2K8 Terminal Services RemoteApp.
>
> At the moment we got one headquarter and two independent branch offices
> connected over the internet via VPN:
>
> - Headquarter: 10 Workstations, 2 MBit SDSL (2000/2000)
> - Branch 1: 5 Workstations, 1 MBit SDSL (1000/1000)
> - Branch 2: 2 Workstations, 128 kBit ISDN (128/128) (rural area, no DSL!)
>
> I already installed a W2K3 TS at HQ and people in HQ are working over
> 100 MBit LAN without problems.
>
> My plan is to deploy a W2K8 TS at the HQ, so the branch offices can work
> with published RemoteApps over the internet.
>
> Question: Can anyone provide me with some real life experience with
> Windows 2008 TS RemoteApp over the internet:
>
> - how much bandwidth is approx. needed for one session?
> - is it fast enough for 'comfortable' working (office apps only)?
> - how does printing affect the performance?
> - pros/cons?
>
> What is your experience?
>
> Regards,
> Lejf
>
 
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