Question : Bandwidth overhead for an RDP session

I am trying to determine the overhead or bandwidth consumption for running a remote desktop session (rdp) to a Windows XP computer.  I had thought the overhead was quite low and that just keyboard, mouse and screen changes were being sent in an rdp session; but was told recently that there can be alot of overhead with rdp and in some instances a single session was taking up a full T1 worth of data.  I am trying to verify if this could be accurate. Thanks!

Answer : Bandwidth overhead for an RDP session

No...  Although RDP does have some overhead, it is basically just a Terminal Services connection, and the bandwidth consumption is very minimal..  it uses screenshots to pass the session image to the client computer, and should never take up that much bandwidth..  I suggest that whoever told you this needs to read up on what a Terminal Server does, and how it works..

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