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trailman73, I am connecting via pptp from a WinXP client to a Win2K server using RRAS. Any file downloads are extremely slow. Ftp downloads are not so bad. Have not been able to find anything that speeds up the process.

daveman007, In my example, you would run dhcp from the MS-VPN server (running w2k or NT) and any internal people that need dhcp would get it from that server. It also handles dhcp for those that use pptp to coonect to the network. This is exactly how we have it setup. My home pc uses pptp...

You problem might be related to having an option turned on that uses the VPN connection as the default gateway. That causes your traffic to go through the Gateway. SOmetimes you can disable it and still have access to all of the VPNed machines and have your normal internet access. You will...

I have the same problems and have not been able to find out how to improve VPN performance. Very frustrating. I do believe that some of it has got to be some type of Microsoft overhead when accessing files because I can ftp over the VPN with decent performance.

NT does have a VPN option. You install it through RRAS.

If you are trying to connect to a system that has a dynamic ip, youu will need to use a ddns server. You can find out about them at www.dyndns.org

We use both the Linksys routers VPN and MS VPN. With Linksys, we have two VPN router and just setup the security between the two of them - pretty simple. Then, they are always connected and I always have access to the other office. On one of those routers, we have 1723 routed to the MS VPN...