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GaACETech
Jan 25, 2017Guide
VPN Router for site to site - warehouse to main office
Main Office - cable internet - 25 down / 10 up - 1 server - 3 workstations Warehouse - cable internet - 20 down / 6 up - 1 workstation - 1 printer (LPT1) Tried a Cisco VPN router solution with d...
- Jan 31, 2017
It seems that the VPN routers and setup are fine. Speaking with tech support for the business software used by this company, the only way to speed this up is with a Citrix or MS Remote Desktop solution. The software database is a super fat client and never meant for a WAN (they suggested a T3 (D3?)). And all this for one desktop and very important printer to run the warehouse effectively.
So we are getting remote desktop licenses for a server to use with this software.
However in the back of my mine this still doesn't sit well. I think there is still something up with the VPN created by the Cisco routers or the cable provisioning. However, on the other hand, we can copy files from shared folders from the main office to the warehouse computer with excellent speed.
I get to add two 400Gb SSD's to the server for this app. That will be speed.
Thanks for all the advice and direction. Excellent forum!
SamirD
Feb 01, 2017Prodigy
If you have a site-to-site VPN, why don't you just have the printer over TCP/IP on the other side of the VPN with the workstation local? If someone needs to access the workstation, they can simply remote desktop into the workstation from the printer side. There's a lot of LPT to TCP/IP print servers out there too to make this happen.
And printing across a VPN for text based documents (like your labels) are so fast they seem to be local. We have similar bandwidth and have 3 different printers at the end of 3 different tunnels and can print to any of them like they're local.
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