Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection - Delayed Keystrokes

As I have to access a Windows Server Server 2008 R2 machine at work frequently, I downloaded Microsoft's Remote Desktop Client. Unfortunately, I noticed that it's hardly possible to work fluently on the remote machine because every single keystroke takes up to one or two seconds to be displayed.
Therefore I tried to access the server from a virtual Windows XP installed with Parallels on my Mac. First I wasn't able to see any improvement by using XP but then I changed the preferences of the virtual machine. As soon as I'd changed the network mode from "Shared Network" to "Bridged Network" Remote Desktop on Windows worked a lot more fluently and characters appeared right after striking a key.
Of course I would prefer to use the Remote Desktop Client directly on my Mac if it was possible. As I had such a strange experience by changing the network mode in Parallels, I wondered if there were any known firewall or network adapter issues on a Mac which would explain all these problems.
If you had any ideas I'd be glad to hear them.
Romanli

I use RDC to access a Windows machine remotely via a Juniper Networks remote access setup. I haven't experienced excessive keystroke lag on either a G4 iMac (Tiger) or an i7 iMac (Snow Leopard) using a DSL connection.
Here are two things to check, assuming the problem is not with your Internet connection:
1. Make sure you are using version 2.0.1 of RDC, unless your Mac is running an OS X version older than 10.4.9.
2. It looks like you're running an Intel Mac so make sure RDC is not running under Rosetta. To do this, highlight the RDC app in your Applications folder (or wherever you have it installed) and click the "More info" button (or use the "Get info" menu choice in the Finder). If the "Open using Rosetta" box is checked in the resulting info screen, uncheck it.

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