Re: VPN Help!

Andy,

I believe you are UK based, if so, then try http://www.adslguide.org.uk/
for more information.

If the connection is a standard 'basic' business ADSL package, then you
will have a 256Kbps upload, with a 20:1 contention ratio i.e. sharing
the 256Kbps with up to 19 other users. This is also rate adaptive, the
upload speed will vary with line length / quality between 100Kbps and
256Kbps. The expected increase in speed may not materialise.

There are various options; upgrade data rate / reduce contention ratio,
or if you are in London then look at SDSL. 

Regards,

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Burnett [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 4:22 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [VPN] VPN Help!
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am working for the Mental Health charity SANE, helping out on their IT
> side. My experience is as a Business Analyst/Project Manager in
> Application Development not Networking.
> 
> However, they have very little IT knowledge and it has fallen to me to
> investigate their network setup and its performance. I wonder if you can
> help me - or point me in a better direction...
> 
> We have recently changed to an ASDL connection from ISDN. We have 3
> sites linked via a VPN and have not noticed an improvement in
> performance since this changed. We expected that there would be an
> improvement but have been told that the speed was not expected to have
> been improved by this change. Having read a bit of the "Weakest Link"
> link on your website, I would think that ASDL would speed things up - Is
> this correct?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andy Burnett
> 
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