[FreeNX-kNX] RDP and FreeNX - poor experience compared to direct RDP

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

On 10/12/06, Chetan Venkatesh <chetan.venkatesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I've done  some testing of RDP over NX (connect to a Windows XP/2003 Server
> using NX client on FC4 ->FreeNX  Server on RHEL ->RDP on WinXP.  I have
> found that the performance of RDP over NX is very poor (upto 5 times slower
> to start  applications as well as generally laggy feel (this is over a 150
> ms latency 256 Kbps Internet Link ).  Straight forward RDP how ever seems to
> provide a much better experience (using rdesktop to connect directly to the
> XP server).  Some of the FreeNX material (Kurt Pfeifel's article in
> particular - the arrival of NX) and even NoMachine's marketing material say
> that NX makes RDP work better.
>
> Any suggestions or ideas on what settings would  give us a performance boost
> using RDP over NX?
>
>
> Regards
> Chetan

Well, that hardly seems like a fair comparison. Obviously, connecting
though a NX proxy via a slow connection, is faster than connecting
directly over a fast connection. Link the RDP and NX server directly,
and you'll get a different result, I think..

/Jo-Erlend