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Of all the suggestions in the comments here, this seems like the best one to start with.

Also... I get that the dumb solution to "ugly text at low bitrates" is "make the bitrate higher." But still, nobody looked at a 40M minimum and wondered if they might be looking at this problem from the wrong angle entirely?

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In fairness VNC-style approaches are bloody awful even over my 2.5gbit/sec lan on very fast hardware. It just cannot do 4K well (not sure if they need 4k or not).

I spent some time compiling the "new" xrdp with x264 and it is incredibly good, basically cannot really tell that I'm remote desktoping.

The bandwidth was extremely low as well. You are correct on that part, 40mbit/sec is nuts for high quality. I suspect if they are using moonlight it's optimized for extremely low latency at the expense of bandwidth?

Moonlight is mostly designed to stream your gaming desktop to a portable device or your TV at minimal latency and maximum quality within a LAN. For that, 40Mbps is quite reasonable. It's obviously absurd for mundane VNC/productivity workloads.

They are streaming AI coding agents. They are not streaming 4K video.

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