VPN and Tunnelling

[shoeguy]

Just curious if anyone here has any experience with VPNs and Tunelling? I usually, when in Canada tunnel to a US server to access content that is Geo Blocked to Canadians. I am now trying to do the reverse as TERB is blocked, but when I log in to my network server at my office it took 7 minutes to load the TERB T's & C's when realistically it is probably about 4-8k. Anyone know what could be wrong?

Thanks

 

[Radio_Shack]

Overhead makes it slow. VPN has pros and cons depending on what server you are connecting to for the tunnel....

 

[shoeguy]

Overhead makes it slow. VPN has pros and cons depending on what server you are connecting to for the tunnel....

So I guess there isn't much I can do about performance?

 

[danibbler]

So I guess there isn't much I can do about performance?

Nope, not much at all. Like RS said, it depends on the server. I use a VPN service and it can get slow at times.

 

[Anynym]

It will, of course, also depend on packet loss rates and the TCP stack you're using. Some old Windows stacks would toss any out-of-sequence packets (i.e. if a packet was lost, all subsequent packets would be tossed until the lost packet was retransmitted). Hope they've fixed that by now, but the Bandwidth-Delay Product still pretty much defines your transmission rate.