NComputing RX420(RDP) Thin Client for Microsoft AVD/RDS, Verde VDI, vSpace Pro Enterprise

I've seen others reports that their RDP session exhibited input delay and poor overall performance. I was having the same issue and about to write a scathing review here on Amazon. After a fair amount of research, I couldn't find any information on their knowledge base about the performance issues I was having. I concluded that it must be a misconfiguration on my end. Sure enough, I found that these devices were auto negotiated down to 10Mbps Half-Duplex on my switches. Once I forced 1Gbps Full-Duplex switch side the performance issues were resolved. NComputing has released 2 new firmware versions for the RX420-RDP in the last month alone, which have improved performance and resolved some known issues. These things are super simple to set up and use. A mouse and keyboard just work, whether wired or wireless. It will transparently pass the RDP session audio through to speakers or headphones that you plug into the line out, or you can use the HDMI cable to route audio to your monitor speakers, or even use a wireless headphone transceiver. The RX420-RDP can take advantage of the discrete GPUs on an RDP host as long as your host is configured to use/prefer hardware-accelerated H.264 via the AVC444 codec. I am currently using a single 2560 x 1440 monitor with these and they work great! Lower resolutions can provide an improved experience depending on your use case and RDP session host resources/configuration. I have not tested multiple displays at the same time on one RX420-RDP, but I assume it works as there are two micro HDMI ports and this is an advertised feature. Although not the perfect experience I find these little things amazing. Although these are just a Raspberry Pi 4 with NComputing Branded Thin client software installed on them. I could make a DIY version, but installing, maintaining, and tweaking software and settings is not worth it for my use case. Having a year of firmware updates for free then a yearly subscription at $12/year is not a deal-breaker at all for me. If I don't want the firmware updates after the first year then I can just use them as-is without paying the subscription. Each RX420-RDP I have is set up as follows: * Powered by PoE splitter so I only need one cable for power and data * Use a wireless keyboard and mouse that run off the same wireless receiver * Monitor resolution is 2560 x 1440, but depending on the use case I may run at 1920 x 1080 * RDP Session Hosts are Windows Server 2019 or Windows 10 * The Session hosts have discrete GPUs for hardware-accelerated RDP sessions * The RDP session hosts are configured for the best quality RDP sessions as bandwidth is not a concern * Each RX420-RDP is configured to use the newer version of RDP instead of RemoteFX * RDP session audio is received via the 3.5mm line out via headphones or speakers

I have these mounted to the back of monitors with short HDMI cables. Very clean setup. Only wires are power to the device and monitor. I'm using a wireless keyboard and mouse with them.

First, this was incredibly easy to get working. Hooked up a monitor (well, TV), enabled rdp on my desktop, logged right in. Got a full desktop, things worked, it was fine. However, things like browsers were incredibly choppy and videos were slide shows. That might not matter for some types of work, but it was a problem for me - I bought it because it advertised media capabilities through Microsoft RemoteFX. Which apparently, though still advertised as a feature on both Amazon and the product's website as of this writing, was disabled by Microsoft some time ago because it's a security risk. So if you're buying it for that feature, probably don't. If that doesn't matter to you, then it's probably fine.

using for RDP to a 2012 R2 windows terminal server. setup was a snap. firmware needed to be updated to get rid of some minor low res video issues. wish the power light would be off when not on. also, can't see password with clicking on an eye like newer software.

I bought the device because they claim it has dual monitor support. However, there is no setting to enable it and after trying multiple monitors I am convinced that this cannot support 2 monitors. I will be returning this. Shame on you Ncomputing for not answering a very simple question after I just bought 2 of your products.