I've set up VPN access to several of my client's servers and they can access them every time from various Windows OS machines which either connect direct to the internet or share a connection via a small router/switch. When I try to access the same machines from my own desktop which looks out to the internet through and SME6.0.1 server and an SME Barricade router, I sometimes get on immediately and sometimes cannot get on at all - often for days at a time. When I'm succeding at getting onto one I often can't get onto one of the others. If I make a phone call to a colleague. he can get on immediately.
I have ports 80/tcp, 110/tcp, 25/tcp, 500/udp, 1723/tcp, 5631/udp, and 5632/tcp open for mail, web, VPN and PC-Anywhere access, and the fact that I sometimes get on and can then stay on all day indicates the problem isn't with ports.
My clinets use Windows Remote Destop Access to work at their office machine desktops when on the road and they have nothing but praise for the stability and speed - but I can't get on reliably; it's driving me mad. Thinking it might be ISP problems, I signed up for a faster, less contended ADSL account which came on line today but, if anything its worse.
Any ideas?
Ed Form