crystal long distance

[leburg]

I'm using crystal over a vpn and if I leave an open crystal session idle for more than a minute or two the communications link gets trounced and I then have to quit out and reinvoke, get back to where I was, a royal pain in the butt. Anyone have any idea what needs tweaking?

Many thanks in advance...!

 

[smcnulty2000]

Probably the problem is with your VPN. I doubt a crystal setting will help.

I've used a vpn that was more friendly and another that was less friendly. It is possible that a VPN setting can solve this. Maybe a conversation with your network person.

What seemed to help me the most was to keep a moderately noisy application open in addition to the crystal session. In my case, this was Outlook. This seemed to cause the VPN to not die on me.

Best of luck. Wish I had a better solution. Maybe someone else will.

 

[leburg]

Can you elaborate on the Outlook method?

 

[smcnulty2000]

Outlook hooked into a server that is over the same vpn will continually send traffic. If you don't see a reduction in problems at that point then either it isn't the vpn causing the issue or the vpn is garbage.

Unfortunately it's not a trick with outlook. It is just using outlook because it is noisy. And commonly found.

If you use outlook but your server isn't accessed through the vpn then it won't do you any good. It has to be reaching the exchange server through the vpn.

You might experiment with opening a word doc from a file share that is on the other side too. It certainly isn't as sure.