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Hello, Would anyone out there be able to suggest what would be the best setup for a small business network with a remote office, and external salesperson? The primary office is currently usin...
Hi Damo80,
You may want to consider the FVS318N which is a Wireless N VPN Firewall for your main office. You can set up a client-to-box IPSec VPN on the firewall so that the external salesperson from the remote office could have access on the file server located in the main office. You could have both wired and wireless connection through the FVS318N as well. Kindly check its specifications here.
Kindly check this link about client-to-box IPSec VPN configuration.
Welcome to the community!
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Thanks for that Dane,
There was something that I left off. We have get a Dynamic IP from our ISP, is this an issue.
Another thing that has been raised by a friend is VPN's need descent upload speeds, what I got from our modem is we are currently only getting about 7616 kbps download, and 384 kbps upload. I'm guessing this would make a difference for the remote person...
Thanks.
Hi Damo80,
Damo80 wrote:
There was something that I left off. We have get a Dynamic IP from our ISP, is this an issue.
The best practice is to have a public static WAN IP Address from the ISP.
Damo80 wrote:
Another thing that has been raised by a friend is VPN's need descent upload speeds, what I got from our modem is we are currently only getting about 7616 kbps download, and 384 kbps upload. I'm guessing this would make a difference for the remote person...
The speed which your ISP provides will also affect the speed of a VPN connection.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
You can do a vpn with dynamic ips. Since your router is on 24x7, you won't lose the IP unless the isp is making network changes. I've only seen this happen once in about 2 years, so it's not a big deal. I have several fvs318n's doing site-to-site vpns using dynamics.
Bandwidth is going to be important dependent on what you'll be using the connection for. If you're going to be transfering huge files, bandwidth can be a real issue. If the remote user will only need access to large files at the home office, then you can have him remote desktop over the vpn to a system at the home office and work with the files that way. This is a configuration we use where we have paper scanned to our home office from several sites and then I view them remotely by rdping into a system at the home office. Even with only 4Mbit upload, I can work fairly well from almost 1000mi away.
These are just some ideas to start. Post up some more information about your workflow and I'm sure we can dial in a perfect solution. The fvs318n is a good unit to work with, even with its quirks.
VPNs can be done with dynamic addressing if a dynamic DNS provider (for example DynDNS) is used, however, upload speeds that low, will be a bit of a problem.
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