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Teamviewer transfers so slow

  • 14-10-2011 7:59pm
    #1
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,516 ✭✭✭✭


    I installed Teamviewer a few months ago as a wireless solution to shuttle files between my laptop and the desktop downstairs via the router that they are both connected to (laptop wirelessly, desktop wired). Now it was all going fine and getting good internal LAN speeds, connecting to the desktop from the laptop 'til one day I wanted to send a file to the desktop from the laptop. I connected to the laptop from the desktop but the file transfer speed was really slow, 23 KB/s to be exact and it was apparent that the connection was going through the internet rather than over the LAN.

    The same problem is now there when going from laptop to desktop also yet I did not meddle with any settings (that I recall). Forcing teamviewer to use only LAN connections means that I cannot connect at all. I'm unsure of how to rectify this. Any ideas?


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  • #2
    Razzuh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭Razzuh


    TeamViewer is really meant for remote desktop across the internet. There's really no point using it between two computers in your house. I'm guessing that TV is sending everything through their servers so that's why it's slow. They don't want people using TV for large file transfer.

    Are both of these windows machines? You can set them up to both use windows native file sharing, which will be LAN only and fairly fast. You could also use windows remote desktop instead of TV altogether which is very decent and will give you much better responsiveness as again the traffic will be going direct instead of on a long round trip around the internet before coming back to another room in your house. You can also just copy and paste files from one desktop to the other with windows native RD (as long as both machines are Vista or higher).


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