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I keep looking for this information on the blog here and forgetting that it is actually in the forum here: VPN’s.

So, without further ado, I will post it here as well (note: I am not using the port mentioned here).

Notes: You can change the listening port for remote desktop
Then connect on that port

To set up remote desktop on port 3053 instead of 3389

Using regedit (if you don’t know what that is then don’t do this) change:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\System
\CurrentControlSet
\Control
\TerminalServer
\WinStations
\RDP-Tcp
\PortNumber
to 3053 (or bed in Hexadecimal).
Reboot Windows to make sure the setting took properly
Open port 3053 on the Windows firewall

Set the IP address so that a future reboot would not give me a new IP.

Open 3053 on the router’s firewall and point at the IP set for the computer.

To test it I connected to my home computer and then had it connect back to the computer here using domain.com:3053 and it worked. It was dead slow, but it worked.

Just a note that even a fast internet connection gets sluggish when you are connecting both directions over RDP.