But it also occurred to me that over the last two weeks SWMBO had been using her windows () laptop to remotely access her desktop at work where she continued to upload/download as if she was right there in her office. Both her systems have IT Dept installed remote access & firewalls and I'm now wondering if all day connections have had a significant impact on the allocated data at home. Can anyone advise?
Remote control software passes KVM (keyboard, screen delta, mouse) information only, which is far less than the uploads / downloads that are occurring on the work PC (i.e. none of that is going to your home PC).
If the connection is "up" all day but not in use, then usually only some "keep-alives" are sent - some systems may even drop a remote connection if it has been idle for a set period.
So I don't think that the remote session is consuming a huge amount of bandwidth.
SD