How are you doing the speed tests? I've seen this sort of problem with my
links, but suspect it has something to do with having windows doing file
transfers. Are you cut/pasting by any chance?
Brock
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From: <MarshallJ_at_switch.aust.com>
To: <users_at_lists.freeswan.org>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 8:44 PM
Subject: [Users] bandwidth limited by distance??
> I have a vpn between FreeS/WAN and a cisco vpn concentrator. The FreeS/WAN
> box is in Australia and the Cisco is in USA. We have 2Mbit connection at
> each end, and I am seeing a 40kbytes/sec transfer rate through the vpn. I
> expected it to be a lot faster than that.
>
> I have a second FreeS/WAN box that's connected to the same cisco
> concentrator, and is on a 1.5Mbit connection however the ping time is
> lower (260ms vs 340 ms) and I am able to transfer 60kbytes/sec.
>
> My question is: Is the ipsec protocol bandwidth limited by round-trip
> time? Both ends were reasonably idle other than the vpn traffic at the
> times of the tests, so the only thing I can think of is the distance.
>
> My next question is: How can I get this bandwidth to be closer to the
> capacity of the links?
>
> Regards,
> Josh Marshall.
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