Does O2 broadband support VPN?

gene hackmann

Hi,

I'm moving to Ardee, County Louth today but working in Dublin, so want to be telecommuting 2 days per week ASAP.

I would get eircom first only for it taking 4 weeks wait to get phone line in then another 2 to get broadband so prefer a quicker solution.

Does O2 broadband work well enough for this type of work?
I need it to support VPN and be able to VNC to my machine in work.

Any other options other than O2 broadband?

• Chorus, couldn't get info whether it was supported
• Wireless/Irish Broadband, couldn't get line-of-sight to the house

Sponge Bob

also www.net1.ie but go down to their office in person !

ElNino

I use the Cisco VPN client to login to work remotely over O2 broadband without any issues. I also run Citrix over the VPN connection.

zugvogel

ElNino wrote:

I use the Cisco VPN client to login to work remotely over O2 broadband without any issues. I also run Citrix over the VPN connection.

Hey that's interesting!
Are you running citirx on EDGE or 3G. What are your speeds like on Irish ISP test? Do you find latency to be a problem?

thks,
Zug

corepl

zugvogel wrote:

Hey that's interesting!
Are you running citirx on EDGE or 3G. What are your speeds like on Irish ISP test? Do you find latency to be a problem?

thks,
Zug

It's comfortable enough for interactive work (ssh, telnet etc.). No issues with RDP or VNC.

zugvogel

corepl wrote:

It's comfortable enough for interactive work (ssh, telnet etc.). No issues with RDP or VNC.

That's cool.
Thks for the reply.

Zug

RangeR

Technically, VPN / VNS will work fine on Chorus broadband. The only problem is are Chorus capable of supplying a persistant connection in that area? There have been many issues with Chorus over the past months