[thelist] Windows VPN Analysis

Anthony Baratta Anthony at Baratta.com
Mon Sep 15 19:42:08 CDT 2003


At 04:32 PM 9/15/2003, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:41:21 -0400, Hershel Robinson 
><hershelr at netvision.net.il> wrote:
>
>>I am aware that a Win VPN creates 2-way communications for basically all 
>>communication, including a simple file upload or download, but still I 
>>think ours goes very slow.
>
>VPN (from what I've read) is usually no better than a dialup speed, does 
>it seem slower than that?

I get full through put of my DSL line via the VPN. VPN should only be as 
slow as the smallest pipe. (Granted there is overhead for the "encryption 
but that's not noticable at 1.2 Mb downstream  and 128Kb upstream - my DSL 
connection.)

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