how many mbps for use with a router?

If I use a router and hook up 2 pc's (which are likely to use the connection
at the same time) to it. Is it best to have a 512 kbps connection or a 1024
kbps?
Thanx, Vin

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:26:52 +0100, "Kolicha \(vinnieza & gio\)"
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>If I use a router and hook up 2 pc's (which are likely to use the connection
>at the same time) to it. Is it best to have a 512 kbps connection or a 1024
>kbps?

Many organisations have 40+ users connected via 512k ADSL. But it
depends on your requirements - if you plan to listen to the radio on
each PC then maybe 3-4 PC's on a 512k link.

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"Andy Jenkins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> all. The same would apply for any bandwidth intensive applications -
> VPN included (if you like me anyway - transferring 100's of megabytes
> of files a day through a VPN tunnel).
>
>
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> Andy Jenkins
>
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Andy

If you don't mind me asking ...
What data rates do you get transferring large files through VPN ?

eric

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"Andy Jenkins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi Eric,
>
> Because of the internal network at work, this does vary. But
> typically the corporate LANs in work are operating very close to their
> 100mbit rate. Because of this, approximately 90% of the time large
> transfers are usually coming down at around the theoretical maximum on
> a 512k connection (lets say about 58k/sec), and being uploaded at
> around the 22k/sec a second.
>
> I presume by the query that transfers through VPN are not impressive
> with yourself ?
>
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> Andy Jenkins
>
> http://www.uk-bug.net : The UK Broadband Usergroup.

Andy

Thanks for the info.
I thought I'd heard somewhere it was inefficient, but obviously isn't
affecting you.
I've never actually used it but was considering it.
I guess I'll give it a go now.

eric

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"Eric Parker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Andy
>
> If you don't mind me asking ...
> What data rates do you get transferring large files through VPN ?
>
> eric

Hi Eric,

I have a 512k ADSL connection and use a VPN Client (SecuRemote) to open a
VPN connection to my client in Paris. I regularly download large zip files
from their LAN - 50MB zip is currently taking about 20 - 30 mins. However,
when the LAN in Paris is busy, download times are reduced quite a bit...

Works fine for me though...

regards,

James

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:53:39 +0100, "Eric Parker"
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>Andy
>
>Thanks for the info.
>I thought I'd heard somewhere it was inefficient, but obviously isn't
>affecting you.
>I've never actually used it but was considering it.
>I guess I'll give it a go now.

One important bit of information that I missed off was that I'm not
using any OS's native VPN client. Due to work requirements I use a
VPN client developed by AT&T.

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