I have setup a simple VPN connection between a Windows 2000 Server and some external Windows XP clients. The outgoing speed of the Server to the Internet is 64kbs and the incoming speed at the clients end is 56kbs.
Although this is a reasonably average connection at both ends, folders on the server take about two minutes to open at the clients end. This is even with no other traffic on either the servers network or the clients end. So a person trying to navigate through five levels of the file structure has to wait over ten minutes before they can see the files they want.
Then downloading a file, even a small test file of a few k, can take ages.
Can anyone suggest a way to improve the speed between these machines via VPN without having to upgrade the connections to DSL at the client end, or improve the outgoing speed at the server end.
Surely the 64 and 56 speeds at either end would produce faster times than what I am currently achieving. Thanks