New
#1
Why is my VPN connection so incredibly slow?
I have a VPN connection on my home Win7 Pro 64-bit machine to access files on the server at my office. I connect using Win7's built-in VPN protocol, using my office's static IP address. After the VPN connection is active, I can go to \\server\share and access our files, just as if I were sitting within the office LAN.
Problem is recently it seems like data transfer speeds are immensely slow, so much so that I cannot work on what I need to.
We use Comcast Business at the office, and various speed tests show what I consider to be a blazing fast 110-115 Mbps download speed, and 20-25 Mbps upload speed. At home I have the consumer version of Comcast Xfinity internet, and I get what I consider a decently fast 25-30 Mbps down, and about 5 Mbps upload.
So I tried the LAN SpeedTest Lite utility on my home machine, entered a location on the office server as the location for the test file, and the speed I got back was a dismal 1.6 Mbps down, and 0.8 Mbps up.
In the case of most of my work, most of the data is traveling from the office to home, which would mean it's using the office outgoing connection and my home's incoming connection, both of which are around 25 Mbps in online speed tests.
Is there any way to increase the speed to the office server? I could have sworn I used to get about 5 Mbps down thru VPN, which wasn't great, but adequate for the work I was doing. What to do?