We use microsofts free vpn for people to remote access us via the
internet to our 2mb adsl line, now we would like to do a site-to-site
vpn from the uk to australia (a 100mb connection their end), its a huge
amounts of hops to do it, and when we tried before the vpn connection
kept dropping and was very  slow.

has anyone any tips on how to improve it or is their a better solution
than ms pptp for this sort of latency?

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"Neil" <back_ache@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> We use microsofts free vpn for people to remote access us via the
> internet to our 2mb adsl line, now we would like to do a site-to-site
> vpn from the uk to australia (a 100mb connection their end), its a
> huge amounts of hops to do it, and when we tried before the vpn
> connection kept dropping and was very  slow.

I doubt that the distance has anything to do with it.  Your problem is
more likely a packetloss and/or bacis connectivity problem.  Have you
ran any thoughput tests between the two locations?  Do a search for a
program called 'ttcp'.  Remember you DSL line may be 2mbit down, but
it's most likly only 200-300 kbits up.

> has anyone any tips on how to improve it or is their a better solution
> than ms pptp for this sort of latency?

I would suggest using something like OpenVPN to build a tunnel between
to lans.  PPTP is more of a dialup type VPN connection. If you don't
fully understand how networks are routed you are going to have problems.

SIX

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