Posted by Grant Foraker on April 21, 2005 at 06:19:30:
In Reply to: Re: v.p.n.'s posted by Jay Zhang on April 20, 2005 at 15:59:26:
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I agree with Jay. CometAnywhere is still the best way to go for DSL and maybe even for T1.
Some considerations for DSL:
1) what's the bandwidth of the VPN, not 10/100 mbs, maybe .5 mbs (500kbs), maybe less in the boonies
2) what other traffic will be going over the VPN, email, VOIP, file transfers
3) VPN's usually have the capability to allocate bandwith dynamically until they "choke". Had a customer's sales rep email a new price book (3MB attachment) out to 100+ customers. That caused all the CometAnywhere and Terminal Services clients to get cut off.
At another customer, I left CometAnywhere as is and didn't redirect it through the VPN. So, even if the VPN "choked" there was enough bandwidth outside of the VPN's control to keep the users going.