We use microsofts free vpn for people to remote access us via the internet to our 2mb adsl line, now we would like to do a site-to-site vpn from the uk to australia (a 100mb connection their end), its a huge amounts of hops to do it, and when we tried before the vpn connection kept dropping and was very slow.
has anyone any tips on how to improve it or is their a better solution than ms pptp for this sort of latency?
"Neil" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com:
I doubt that the distance has anything to do with it. Your problem is more likely a packetloss and/or bacis connectivity problem. Have you ran any thoughput tests between the two locations? Do a search for a program called 'ttcp'. Remember you DSL line may be 2mbit down, but it's most likly only 200-300 kbits up.
I would suggest using something like OpenVPN to build a tunnel between to lans. PPTP is more of a dialup type VPN connection. If you don't fully understand how networks are routed you are going to have problems.
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