Hi,

In practice how much difference will it make, performance wise, to setup a VPN
between two locations running ADSL from the same ISP, as opposed to different
ones, given speeds etc. are equal?

cheers


-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com

Rob S wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In practice how much difference will it make, performance wise, to setup a VPN
> between two locations running ADSL from the same ISP, as opposed to different
> ones, given speeds etc. are equal?

We have both scenarios and they both work well of course. Ironically
one of the fastest links is between two sites using different ISP's -
this continues to surprise me a little but one possible explanation is
the different routers and firewalls at each site.

On Wed, 25 May 2005 10:41:39 +0100, Wireless Reader <justrolls@tiscali.co.uk>
wrote:
-
-We have both scenarios and they both work well of course. Ironically
-one of the fastest links is between two sites using different ISP's -
-this continues to surprise me a little but one possible explanation is
-the different routers and firewalls at each site.

As a matter of interest do you find the VPNs more reliable with identical (makes
or models) routers at each end?

cheers

-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com

Rob S wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2005 10:41:39 +0100, Wireless Reader <justrolls@tiscali.co.uk>
> wrote:
> -
> -We have both scenarios and they both work well of course. Ironically
> -one of the fastest links is between two sites using different ISP's -
> -this continues to surprise me a little but one possible explanation is
> -the different routers and firewalls at each site.
>
> As a matter of interest do you find the VPNs more reliable with identical (makes
> or models) routers at each end?

I can't say that we do. In fact although we tend to use a smallish
range of different hardware - firmware levels are often different at
each site for various operational reasons.