mystifying
Technical User
- Dec 7, 2002
- 76
Hi! We recently moved our secondary location to a new building and upgraded to a MPLS in the process. Previously we had a couple Netgear VPN firewalls to communicate. The way things are set up now is we have a provided MPLS router at each end, and our Netgear VPN firewall still in the mix with a static route set up in it.
What I really want to know is are there advantages to having the static route set up through the provided equipment, or should it just remain as it is set now? It seems the provided equipment would be more sophisticated than our little setup, but maybe its not anything to really worry about.
The Netgear box we have has full duplex 100M on the LAN side, but only half duplex 10M on the WAN. Wouldn't that cause some speed issues? We have one and a half T1's just for data. I am concerned the half duplex 10M on the WAN side is basically meaning we aren't able to take full advantage of the T1's.
Even if the routing was switched to through the provided router rather than our little box, should we upgrade the firewall on our side regardless for speed sake, or am I again making too much of the half duplex WAN situation? I understand half duplex basically means only one side can communicate at a time, but I am just not sure how much that really affects the speed of communication.
I just want to utilize the speed I am paying for fully. I am sorry if I've rambled a bit, I hope my questions are clear enough.
Thanks!
What I really want to know is are there advantages to having the static route set up through the provided equipment, or should it just remain as it is set now? It seems the provided equipment would be more sophisticated than our little setup, but maybe its not anything to really worry about.
The Netgear box we have has full duplex 100M on the LAN side, but only half duplex 10M on the WAN. Wouldn't that cause some speed issues? We have one and a half T1's just for data. I am concerned the half duplex 10M on the WAN side is basically meaning we aren't able to take full advantage of the T1's.
Even if the routing was switched to through the provided router rather than our little box, should we upgrade the firewall on our side regardless for speed sake, or am I again making too much of the half duplex WAN situation? I understand half duplex basically means only one side can communicate at a time, but I am just not sure how much that really affects the speed of communication.
I just want to utilize the speed I am paying for fully. I am sorry if I've rambled a bit, I hope my questions are clear enough.
Thanks!