VPN killing network?

Reati

Hey folks. So the wife is remoting in here via her work machine. When the VPN is connected the internet on all other devices crawls to a snails pace or drops completely.

Surely that's not normal? Any idea. A Google search didn't bring up much other than debugging the VPN itself which is fine.

It's devices like the phones, Xbox etc where the problem is.

ED E

More detail required.

Is she at home dialing work or at work dialing home?
Do you have ADSL/VDSL/Cable?
Is she using a remote desktop program on top of that VPN?

Reati

More detail I can do

She's at home VPN into the Work network.
We have this: http://shop.vodafone.ie/shop/mobile-broadband/vodafone-4g-router-cat-6-bill-pay
Ping: 23 (average) Up 20 / Download 22

She wasn't RDP into her machines but does sometimes. It's weird, the minute the laptop gets onto the network everything slows down. It's set to metered mode so it's not downloading a ton of anything.

The network set up goes from the Huawei Router to one of two port Gigabit switches which are paired over a Cat6 cable. The remaining 6 ports in Switch one goes to Cat6a patch panel and down Cat6a cables to each room. The second switch is connected to a NVR.

At one of the sockets is a Linksys wrt1900acs in Bridge (AP) mode. At another down the other end of house is a Netgear Wi-fi extender in AP mode.

We are connected to the Linksys when it slows down (haven't tried the Netgear)

There are 12 devices connected at the minute (5 wireless).

The high horse brigade

Try Ethernet

Reati

Narrowed it down to the linksys. Factory reset it and put a custom firmware on it. Will check in morning if that fixed it.

Reati

Yeah, not the Linksys. I'm totally confused. Might be the B528.

smuggler.ie

Have you tried

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Try Ethernet

, furthermore ,connect laptop with ethernet directly to Huawei eliminating rest of devices.

From your previous post kind of mixed:

...When the VPN is connected...

,and then

...the minute the laptop gets onto the network...

,so which one? Does network die when laptop without VPN?

Cuddlesworth

Reati wrote: »

Yeah, not the Linksys. I'm totally confused. Might be the B528.

Its the laptop. Metered mode only really affects Windows, not the applications on it. Look at her network usage in Task manager, I'd say she has a work backup/sync application that is uploading/downloading the second it connects.

ED E

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Its the laptop. Metered mode only really affects Windows, not the applications on it. Look at her network usage in Task manager, I'd say she has a work backup/sync application that is uploading/downloading the second it connects.

This.

Wouldnt be surprised if its loading a roaming NT profile.

CastielJ

Well if you use free VPN the problem is obvious. Free vpns are not reliable and using it can brings only lags 'cause of lack of speed. It relates to free proxy servers too. I usually use fineproxy paid proxy server. I think that $10 is not high price for high speed and unlimited traffic.

Reati

ED E wrote: »

This.

Wouldnt be surprised if its loading a roaming NT profile.

This is likely, will check that out.

CastielJ wrote: »

Well if you use free VPN the the problem is obvious. Free vpns are not reliable and using it can brings only lags 'cause of lack of speed. It relates to free proxy servers too. I usually use fineproxy paid proxy server. I think that $10 is not high price for high speed and unlimited traffic.

It's not a free VPN. It's a corporate VPN.

I've having a side thread with some other people seeing the issues. It might actually be Vodaphones network and how it's handling the B528. It's having DNS issues pretty much every 30 minutes.

I also need to get an adapter for the enthernet suggestion. Tis one of those fancy new Dell XPS15's with no ports...

Capt'n Midnight

What bandwidth are you getting without the VPN ?

Reati

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

What bandwidth are you getting without the VPN ?

Right now:

Download 11.72 Mbps
Upload 16.24 Mbps
Ping 23ms

Highest I've seen was about 35Mbps down. Lowest test was about 7Mbps down.