Dial Up VPN download speed slow

howler · 28 Jan 2010 at 10:47

When I connect my dial up VPN to my SSG-140 I experience extremely slow download speeds

The SSG has a 15Mb ethernet circuit and the dial up vpn is coming from a 5mb ADSL connection, when I try to pull files down from any of the servers at head office it takes a very long time

I have been through this with JTAC and they applied some traffic shaping which helped with stability but did not change the speed, JTAC told me that it is because of a restriction with netscreen remote and its dial up adapter being 'digital' therefore is limited to a maximum of 64kbps

I have tried a couple of other VPN clients and experience the same thing, is it really true that a dial up vpn is going to be resticted like this?

bigredshark · 28 Jan 2010 at 13:14

Not a problem I've had personally, it's slower than optimal but not that slow. I've avoided NSR for a while now though, it's not a nice bit of software. I don't understand quite what they're saying but if JTAC say so then there's probably some truth to it, they're good...

howler · 28 Jan 2010 at 14:05

I've tried a couple of other bits of software too, NSR is truly gash but I thought JTAC might be able to help if it was their software on the client side

There does not seem to be much choice of IPSeC windows clients out there

JTAC are usually great but not sure this time

bigredshark · 28 Jan 2010 at 14:36

howler said:
I've tried a couple of other bits of software too, NSR is truly gash but I thought JTAC might be able to help if it was their software on the client side

There does not seem to be much choice of IPSeC windows clients out there

JTAC are usually great but not sure this time

Problem is it's not their software, it's rebranded safenet stuff. They're not interested in fixing it either as SSL VPN is the way forwards in their minds. It's a pain...

howler · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:15

Yeah doesn't really help the people who don't want to spend a few thousand on their SSL solution as good as it may be

m4cc45 · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:32

Whats the upload on the VPN line?

I personally use the Shrew client (NSR client is now not supported and doesn't work on x64 / Windows 7 where as Shrew does).

http://www.shrew.net

M.

howler · 29 Jan 2010 at 08:33

800k I think

Doesn't matter which client I use I get the same problem across all of them

I reverted to NSR so that Juniper couldn't try and blame the client software