Slow file transfers in Remote Desktop

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Our file transfers are slower than "Cold Tar" between our office and home
computers when using Windows Remote Desktop. Does anyone else have this
problem?

The Remote Desktop seems to be snappy until we start working with Windows
Explorer on the host machine. Our file transfers should be lightning fast
given the upper-end computers that are linked, yet move slower than cold
molasses.

Here are a couple of observations and we wonder if they might contribute to
the problem:

FIRST, one oddity appears to be the Remote Desktop method of integrating the
client folders as folders in the host machine. Why not simply list the
client drives and folders as a mapped network resource? Mapped network
resources generally seem to be both quick and efficient. So why try to
integrate the client folders into the host display of "My Computer" as if
they were part of the host?

SECOND, could our slower internet broadband cable upload speeds be a
problem.

THIRD, what can we do to troubleshoot and speed up the file transfers?

Thanks for any help


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