Keyboard strokes missing, in the Terminal Services forum on BrianMadden.com

I have an in house application that was ported to Terminal Server. I have a few very fast typers that are loosing keystrokes while working. The app works fine when installed locally.
Are there any server or client tweaks that can deal with keyboard latency?

Thanks in advance

Hi,

Once you introduce communications latency into a teminal server connectio, there will be a lag between what you are typing in and what you get displayed back. The more latency there is, the more lag is introduced.

If you're seeing significant lag on LAN-connected sessions, then you've either got internal communications issues or your terminal server is having some major performance issues.

On a WAN link, character display latency is a fact of life. If you have a local text echo capability (eg Citrix ICA or Provision network's enhanced RDP) you have the option of having the typed in text being echoed locally with a transparent background synchronization. That doesn't solve the latency issue, but at least fast typers can see what they're typing.

But you shouldn't be losing characters. Admittedly the possibility exists that if your application is doing keyboard polling that it could decide an entry is complete when it isn't, but terminal services should not lose keystrokes.

regards,

Rick