Group policy and high latency connection

ChrisD. · 21 Jan 2012 at 13:14

I have an XP client machine on a connection that takes a sat hop before it sees its Win 2k3 DC. It goes over a tunnel and the IP traffic is encrypted. I'd estimate the real time bandwidth to be no more than 128k, with a latency of just under 700ms.

Group policy is not being applied correctly to the machine, I have changed some registry values as advised on varying Microsoft forums but it's still not working as expected.

Am I peeing into the wind trying to get this client to work properly or are there some other suggestions?

ChrisD. · 21 Jan 2012 at 21:05

I'll give it a go, cheers.

ChrisD. · 1 Feb 2012 at 10:24

Got to the bottom of this in the end in case anyone is interested.

Force Kerberos to use TCP instead of UDP.

Changed MTU to 1412.

ChrisD. · 4 Feb 2012 at 00:11

We have another client in in a similar situation but it's on a 10Mbit LAN, the MTU on that was set to 1412 by someone previous so we assumed it'd help. We may have to lower it actually.