Crystal Reports Performance - windows

I have a reports application which uses Crystal Reports XI R2 as its engine which is deployed on an Windows 2008 Server. The problem is, on some data heavy reports it fails to show the report. Some reports work but others... don't.
My end shows a firewall error, when I do a remote desktop and run the same report I see a timeout error. Funny thing is the same report shows correctly when it is deployed on my localhost(No, I do not mean running it via Visual Studio, I set up the IIS deployed the app in the same manner I did on the server) or when I connect to server via Remote Desktop Connection and run it from there.
Any ideas on where should I look? What should I check? Windows error logs do not show anything amiss.
Thanks..

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