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Something between 2 to 4 minutes, until he could finally type his password and access his remote machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even after checking our firewall rules inside out, tracing his connections, nothing obvious could be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-checks\">The checks:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I then decided to run a bunch of tests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1st test &#8211; Connection from a Mac:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried accessing the remote server from my Mac using &#8220;Windows App&#8221;, no issues at all. The connection to the remote host works like a charm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2st test &#8211; Connection from an old laptop running Windows10:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We still had an old laptop running Windows10 in the office, I wanted to give it a try. There again, no issue. The connection is lightning fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even chatGPT was about to give up, after suggesting in turn, to check:<br>&#8211; IPv6 timeout<br>&#8211; Disable auto-redirect of local devices (printers, drives, smart cards&#8230;)<br>&#8211; Reverse DNS lookup delay<br>&#8211; Kerberos delay<br>&#8211; Windows Defender<br>&#8211; Power throttling<br>&#8211; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out that none of these suggestions actually worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I am writing this article, I am still not sure what the root cause is. 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