Hi
We currently have 2 offices with possibly another 2 coming on line in the next few months. Currently we have Cisco 837 router's at both sites, but likely to change these for the 857 so we can deploy the 837 at remote sites for another job.
The 837 at the head office has the vpn server set up and at the remote office (and also with our sales staff) we have the cisco vpn client installed on the machines. We did this at the remote office as we could not get the vpn site to site connection working at the time. The link is very slow for any sensible amount of data transfer between the sites or to the sales staff laptops.
The question is, is the slow speed due to using the 837 as the vpn server or is that normal for VPN's? When we do data transfers where the necessary ports (ie ftp) as open on the router's NAT and firewall configuration then the speed is more to what we would expect.
Would purchasing a Pix 501 provide a faster VPN link and help when we have the other couple sites requiring a VPN link to our head office? Also how easy is it for a Pix to operate along side the 837/857.
Thanks
Ewan.