[TriLUG] PoPToP VPN performance

Turnpike Man turnpike420 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 16 11:51:24 EST 2004


Were you copying the files "from" home "to" work via the vpn?  Your cable modem
upload (if time warner rr in NC) has max upload around 45 KB/sec plus you
hopefully have encyption occurring.  If you were going from work to home, I
would expect this transfer to take 3-6 hours depending on network conditions
and your pipe at work (I'm presuming T1).

David M.

--- Ryan Wheaton <ryan.wheaton at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I've finally gotten my PoPToP VPN server to accept connections 
> correctly, and all seems to be dandy, but it is unbelievably slow.  I 
> couldn't get exact Mb/s times, but when I tried to copy the CentOS ISOs 
> (about 1.8Gb) to a file share over the VPN, it was going to take about 
> 23 hours.  I have a cable modem at home, so i'd expect that performance 
> would be considerably worse for dial-up users.  I expected it to be 
> slower than physically being in the office, but not THAT much slower.  
> Is this kind of performance expected?  Is there any way to tune the 
> server to improve performance?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -rtw
> 
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