Terminal server bandwidth requirements

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Bandwidth requirements depend on many factors: which applications
your users are running on the TS (graphics intensive applications
like CAD programs are bandwidth killers, and so is Internet
Explorer under some circumstances), how much printing is done, etc.

Minimum bandwidth for a useable RDP Session = 26.4Kbps
800x600 @16 bit color - 26.4Kbps per session
1024x768 @256 colors - 24.6Kbps per session

each increase in screen resolution or color depth requires about 3-
4 Kbps more bandwidth.

Have a look at Patrick Rousse's hardware recommendations:
http://www.workthin.com/tshw.htm

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"Sunil Thomas" <sunil306@hotmail.com> wrote on 04 apr 2005 in
microsoft.public.windowsnt.terminalserver.setup:

> Hello All,
> I have an issue with getting information on bandwidth
> requirements. Could someone please let me know if 1mbps upstream
> is good enough for 75 terminal server sessions. We currently use
> T1, we have an option to switch to cable for less than half the
> price. But I cannot find bandwidth requirements for each
> sessions as of yet.
>
> Thanks
>
> Sunil