UPC Broadband and using VPN ?

bob11

Hi There,

I am just thinking of upgrading my Eircom broadband to UPC, but one thing in their terms and conditions is worrrying me ...

I work from home 1 or 2 days per week and I need to use a VPN to connect to my company network ..

In the UPC T&Cs they state that VPNs are not supported:

http://www.upc.ie/termsandconditions/acceptableusagepolicy/

Section 12: Use of Virtual Private Network (VPN)
As stated above, the UPC Services are for residential use only and we do not support the use of VPN. If we find you are using VPN we may instruct you to stop using it and you must comply with this request. This is in order to prevent problems with our network and other Internet users.

Does anyone know if VPNs will work over their network, and why would UPC want tor restrict their use ? It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense ...

If I am not allowed to use VPNs, I will not be able to change providers , so I would appreciate any advice ..

Cheers,

Bob

docmol

Hi, i use a vpn occasionally on my UPC connection to pass large files to a mate (he's on upc as well) and have never had an issue. I don't use it all that often though so maybe I'm just below the radar...

matrim

bob11 wrote: »

Hi There,

I am just thinking of upgrading my Eircom broadband to UPC, but one thing in their terms and conditions is worrrying me ...

I work from home 1 or 2 days per week and I need to use a VPN to connect to my company network ..

In the UPC T&Cs they state that VPNs are not supported:

http://www.upc.ie/termsandconditions/acceptableusagepolicy/

Section 12: Use of Virtual Private Network (VPN)
As stated above, the UPC Services are for residential use only and we do not support the use of VPN. If we find you are using VPN we may instruct you to stop using it and you must comply with this request. This is in order to prevent problems with our network and other Internet users.

Does anyone know if VPNs will work over their network, and why would UPC want tor restrict their use ? It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense ...

If I am not allowed to use VPNs, I will not be able to change providers , so I would appreciate any advice ..

Cheers,

Bob

I've used UPC to work from home over VPN before and it works fine. I think the provision is mainly to stop people hosting VPNs rather than using external VPNs

Sparky

I'm sure this is in relation to setting up a full VPN connection between two offices to link the two office networks together over a residential UPC connection rather than a business connection.

People use VPNs to access their work network from home over UPC everyday. I don't see this as an issue

bealtine

bob11 wrote: »

Hi There,



I work from home 1 or 2 days per week and I need to use a VPN to connect to my company network ..

I use a number of different VPNs and have had no problems

watty

It could be in relation to beating Geoloaction as alternative to Proxies... For dodgy file transfers or streaming.

Or hosting.

Pataman

Sparky wrote: »

I'm sure this is in relation to setting up a full VPN connection between two offices to link the two office networks together over a residential UPC connection rather than a business connection.

People use VPNs to access their work network from home over UPC everyday. I don't see this as an issue

Hi Guys,
I am considering switching over to business upc and they dont support vpn either. I would be using it as you have described, connecting 2 computers to 3 over a vpn. What is their problem?? They wont even discuss it. Is there any alternative to vpn?

bealtine

Pataman wrote: »

Hi Guys,
I am considering switching over to business upc and they dont support vpn either. I would be using it as you have described, connecting 2 computers to 3 over a vpn. What is their problem?? They wont even discuss it. Is there any alternative to vpn?

VPNs work fine UPC just won't help you is what that means...

bhickey

Pataman wrote: »

I am considering switching over to business upc and they dont support vpn either. I would be using it as you have described, connecting 2 computers to 3 over a vpn. What is their problem?? They wont even discuss it. Is there any alternative to vpn?

VPN's should work fine with any ISP and if for some reason they block standard VPN ports then you can just move to other ports.

fjon

I work from home a lot using VPN and haven't once had any issues with UPC in the last 5 years.