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Evening all,
we've recently set up a bit of a home office for my girlfriend to use. In order to work she uses our home wifi network to connect to her head office's network via a VPN.
The trouble she's having is that accessing the intarweb is clearly being done through the two different sites instead of just directly through our connection - this is slowing things massively (down to 500k) and this is confirmed by disconnecting the VPN (connection jumps to 4M)
Does anyone know if there's a way to stay connected to the VPN but access the internet straight from the home network? If it helps, she's using Windows 7 and IE-whatever we've got to now...
Thanks in advance!
Hi,
The VPN probably routes all traffic, including that to the Internet, via the company's office. Other than the speed issue you will also have to consider that the company will be able to monitor which websites you go to.
There is another type of VPN called a split tunnel which lets your Internet traffic go directly rather than via the company. Unfortunately this tends to be controlled by the company rather than being something you can control yourself.
Unfortunately you are probably stuck with what you have.
Our VPN is fast sending ----> that way, but painfully slow <---- this way.
Once logged on, I tend to save stuff I am working on locally, rather than ping back each time to the network.
Or something.
Use a virtual machine within the main machine to do the VPN connection and access the interwebses via the normal desktop?
You won't be able to force it to split-tunnel VPN mode.
As said when she is VPN'd in she is using the comapies internet proxy to get to the net and routing back via the VPN.
Virtual machine is one way. I have two machines, one i work on and one i browse on 😉 Or an iPad or similar.
Do you know what type of vpn it is, what brand name, how does it actually connect?
I cannae mind for sure but does Windows not have an option under the advanced TCP/IP settings of your VPN connection to not use the remote network default gateway.
There is another type of VPN called a split tunnel which lets your Internet traffic go directly rather than via the company. Unfortunately this tends to be controlled by the company rather than being something you can control yourself.
This. Talk to your IT dept.
Only other option is to run two machines (which is what I do).
Aye, two machines here too but I used to just shut the VPN down temporarily if I wanted to do some browsing.
if I wanted to do some [b]*AHEM*[/b] browsing.
😆
On the Networking Tab of the VPN Properties, highlight IPv4 properties, click advanced, and uncheck "Use default gateway on remote network"
This should route your normal internet traffic over your home connection.
Just a bit of banking, honest!