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by pepijn.niemeijer

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Hello People,

I am connected to my office via a windows VPN connection. My internet access at home is via a wireless router and a fast broadband connection (cable 4mb down. When i browse the web (internet explorer 6) with my VPN disconnected i get my high speed broadband, as soon as i connect my VPN it drops in speed. I presume with the VPN connected my connection to the web goes through the server i connect my VPN to. (the IP address changes aswell (get myip.com)) Is there a way to keep my fast broadband instead of dropping to the slow VPN speed?? Cheers Pep

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by tim.pannell

Right click on your VPN connection and choose properties. Go to the "Networking" tab and select "TCP/IP", click "Properties". Click "Advanced" and uncheck the box "use default gateway on remote host". Click OK until you're out of all the windows. If you're currently connected to the VPN, disconnect and restart. You'll now use your ISP instead of going through the VPN.

by xanexp

I tried this solution. It seems to work fine. But the point is you can use internet while at the same time your remote VPN server will be unreachable!

I would appreciate if someone can post something about having interent access while connecting to a remote VPN server.

Thanks

by steven

Your VPN connection needs to be configured for Split Tunneling. this will then only tunnel the traffic destined for the remote site accross the secured tunnel all local and internet traffic will go on the local lan and or out to the interned on the local lan side.

by pepijn.niemeijer

Thanks Tim'

Removing the default gateway works perfectly for me. But i've run into a different problem now. I work for a Building Management Systems manufacturer (direct digital controllers) One of our controllers is fitted with an ethernet port. Now when i connect my laptop to the controller (via LAN-ethernet port) i cant access (login to) my vpn-server at the office. And vice versa when im connected to my VPN server I cannot open the communication to my controller. My controller asks for a static IP adress which i set in the properties of the LAN connection. first I thought it was an IP conflict but even when i set the LAN connection to a totaly different range the problem still occurs. Any ideas on this??

Windows XPSP2 VPN connection and Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit C network card.

by jethadai

Unchecking default gateway in client computer worked for me. Thanx.

by j.m.fisher

The reason for the slowdown would be due to the vpn box encrypting your data, as well as your data having to traverse several more devices. If you connect via vpn to your office and then surf the net your are now surfing from the office. It is likely that your administrators forced users to surf from either the vpn connection or there home connection and disabled to ability to toggle between the two as this creates a security risk. If you vpn in, then minimize your vpn session to surf on your local pc internet connection it creates an opening for hackers to gain access to your work network as if they were you. Sorry but the degraded connection speed is worth the hassle.

by sjsuren.81

Guys i am new to this forum, I would like to learn about remote access VPN. I planning to do the testing of VPN connectivity over ADSL line. Pls Guide me on this.

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