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KevinCloch
Aspirant
Jul 25, 2015
Solved

VPN speed: windows8.1 accepting incomming vs hardware VPN

Hi, I have a Win8.1 virual machine running on a NAS and Win8.1 is accepting incoming connections(VPN). This is located at the office where I have an ISP connection 200Mbits/s down; 15Mbits/s up. At ...
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  • SamirD's avatar
    SamirD
    Oct 08, 2015

    I've run into similar situations with speed and one of the best things you can do is set up a site-to-site connection.  This way, all the vpn overhead is in the routers.   I can max out our 4Mbit upload pipe where our servers are almost 600mi away using a site-to-site configuration.

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BrianL2
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 26, 2015

Hi KevinCloch,

 

Upgrading your NETGEAR home wireless router with a ProSafe VPN router will greatly improve the VPN throughput (Download/Upload). Kindly check this device datasheet for comparison (also with other models).

 

Hope this helps!

 

 

Kind regards,

 

BrianL
NETGEAR Community

 

 

KevinCloch's avatar
KevinCloch
Aspirant
Aug 02, 2015

FYI

I bought a FVS318N Prosave router.

PPTP passtrue remains les then 5mbits/s

I configured the FVS318N to receive IPSec client connection with the VPN client software of Netgear.

I get 9.85Mbits/s.

So this is close to the max connection speeds, as my upload of my ISP connection is 10Mbits/s

 

Thx for the advice on upgrading my router.

 

Kevin

  • BrianL2's avatar
    BrianL2
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Aug 03, 2015

    Hi KevinCloch,

     

    Congratulations! Hope you're happy on your our newly bought NETGEAR ProSafe VPN router. If you have any questions, just create a new topic or discussion.

     

    "Teamwork makes the DREAM WORK"

     

     

    Kind regards,

     

    BrianL
    NETGEAR Community

  • SamirD's avatar
    SamirD
    Prodigy
    Oct 08, 2015

    I've run into similar situations with speed and one of the best things you can do is set up a site-to-site connection.  This way, all the vpn overhead is in the routers.   I can max out our 4Mbit upload pipe where our servers are almost 600mi away using a site-to-site configuration.

    • BrianL2's avatar
      BrianL2
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Oct 11, 2015

      Hi SamirD,

       

      Thank you for sharing and I hope other members will see that this suggestion as a good insight in case they encounter the same. I hope you will continue to contribute in the community by asking giving out suggestions and sharing ideas.

       


      Kind regards,

       

      BrianL
      NETGEAR Community Team

      • SamirD's avatar
        SamirD
        Prodigy
        Oct 11, 2015

        You're welcome.

         

        I just hope to get some good help when I run into trouble.  While I've amassed quite a bit of knowledge about the netgear products I own, there is always something new to learn.

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