Office XP problems through a VPN

[Guest_imported]

I have a VPN set up with my home office over a fast cable connection. I have notice that when I try to open Microsoft Word files that reside on the company servers, it can take up to 60 seconds to open and unlock a 100kb file. Does anybody know if there are settings in Microsoft Word that may cause this delay or if it is simply a speed issue? Everything else seems to work very fast and when I do bandwidth tests I am getting speeds of 700kb or better.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

 

[stiles123]

the majority of residential broadband services are asynchronous. It's not just about the overall speed of your connection, but it does matter what your upload speed is too. A 1MB connection with only 80Kb upload bandwidth is going to perform quite slowly in a networked environment.

Try pulling the file down to your machine. That'll be a lot quicker.

 

[russellmunday]

I have a simular problem and have found it a bit quicker by choosing file open rather than double clicking the file