VPN - Newbie question

Hi

I've just set up my first VPN PPTP tunnel between our Head Office and a
remote warehouse. The Head Office has a megabyte broadband connection,
and the warehouse has a 512Kb broadband connection.

The problem I have is that it is very slow when the warehouse tries to
open an Excel spreadsheet from the head office shared documents folder,
sometimes taking 10 minutes or more.

Is there a way of speeding this up? Would it improve things if the
warehouse had a faster broadband connection?

Head Office shared folder is on a Windows 2003 Server, warehouse is
running on Windows XP. The VPN client and server are built in to the
modem/routers at each end.

TIA

--
Paul

Sorry Paul - that´s VPN !

if you tire to connect via VPN there are some things to remember:

first: you just have a (normally) low bandwidth. an XLS-sheet is normally
very large ( an in this case a mention that 3MB are still large).

second: It is another problem that you hole bandwidth loose about 10% for
the overhead, that the VPN will need.

to speed up your connection tired to use a host - file on the client. Are
you sure that you have a synchronal line ?
Sonetines a connection is slow, because thie upload bandwith is just 128K
and only the download is 512k.

best regards

Stephan Pawlitschek

www.contrain.at


"Paul-B" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi
>
> I've just set up my first VPN PPTP tunnel between our Head Office and a
> remote warehouse. The Head Office has a megabyte broadband connection,
> and the warehouse has a 512Kb broadband connection.
>
> The problem I have is that it is very slow when the warehouse tries to
> open an Excel spreadsheet from the head office shared documents folder,
> sometimes taking 10 minutes or more.
>
> Is there a way of speeding this up? Would it improve things if the
> warehouse had a faster broadband connection?
>
> Head Office shared folder is on a Windows 2003 Server, warehouse is
> running on Windows XP. The VPN client and server are built in to the
> modem/routers at each end.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Paul

"Paul-B" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
>
> I've just set up my first VPN PPTP tunnel between our Head Office and a
> remote warehouse.

Hi back

I have been tasked to do this, and I don't really know where to begin. I can
google as well as anyone, but I was wondering if you found any particular
resource *especially helpful* in guiding you through the process? (books or
websites)

Thanks

Virtual Private Networking with Windows Server 2003: Deploying Site-to-Site
VPNs
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../vpndpls2.mspx

Virtual Private Networking with Windows 2000: Deploying Router-to-Router
VPNs
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...eplyr2rvpn.asp



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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


"Tony23" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Paul-B" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi
> >
> > I've just set up my first VPN PPTP tunnel between our Head Office and a
> > remote warehouse.
>
> Hi back
>
> I have been tasked to do this, and I don't really know where to begin. I
can
> google as well as anyone, but I was wondering if you found any particular
> resource *especially helpful* in guiding you through the process? (books
or
> websites)
>
> Thanks
>
>

If you are using ISA....

ISA Server 2004 FAQ: VPN
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...n/faq-vpn.mspx

Configuring IPSec Site-to-Site Connections Between ISA Server 2004 and
Third-Party Gateways
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...siteipsec.mspx

Establishing an IPSec site-to-site tunnel between an ISA 2004 Firewall and a
D-Link DI-804HV IPSec VPN Router
http://www.isaserver.org/articles/2004isadlink.html

Configuring IPSec Tunnel Mode VPN Between ISA Server 2004 and Astaro
Security Linux
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...elmodevpn.mspx

Configuring IPSec Tunnel Mode VPN Between ISA Server 2004 and SmoothWall
Express 2.0
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...pnexpress.mspx

Configuring IPSec Tunnel Mode VPN Between ISA Server 2004 and Netopia R9100
4.11.3
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...n/netopia.mspx


--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

"Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Virtual Private Networking with Windows Server 2003: Deploying
Site-to-Site
> VPNs
>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../vpndpls2.mspx
>
> Virtual Private Networking with Windows 2000: Deploying Router-to-Router
> VPNs
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...eplyr2rvpn.asp
>

Thanks, Phillip - that's a great help!