I knew that VPN was going to be slow but is this normal

[ddrafts]

We are transfering a 5mb file and it is taking over 5 min to transfer. At first we were having our VJ's access the Database from our Corp office, but it was taking to long to do a search.

Corp has DSL
Other locations have Cable or DSL

Would it be faster to disable the encription???

Thanks in advance.

Doug

 

[wrock]

ddrafts:
are you using an MS Access DB? Just wondering, b/c I am having the same problem with our VPN, all files are fast except those in the Access DB, which are extremely slow.

Thanks,

~*~wRoCk~*~

 

[ddrafts]

No we are using FileMaker.

Someone eles set up it up and migraded all of the data from Access.

Doug

 

[LoopyLoo]

Try playing with the Maximum Transmission Unit(MTU) and Maximum Segment Size (MSS) on both ends of the link. We had a similar problem on a DSL VPN and it transpired that the packets were getting fragmented and dropped.

 

[ddrafts]

Well I have gotten closer to the solution. Before my testing my logon script was running 8 min. After playing with the MTU's it got down to 5min. Just for a test I disabled Norton Antivirus. Now my logon script run's in 1min 30 sec.

I really do not want to uninstall Norton on any of the computers (23 in all) Does anyone know what else to do.

Thanks

Doug

 

[Netwontwork]

Try disabling the "scan on demand" (it's not called that) feature of Norton, the one that scans files as programs/processes access them. I've found that to be a major contributor to slow file transfers/accesses.