[TriLUG] PoPToP VPN performance

[Jon Carnes]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 11:36, Ryan Wheaton 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

When using PPTP via a home cable network connection, you will probably
need to drop your MTA down from 1500 to 1400. 

Jon