Topic: VPN PPTP how to improve performance

[Alejandro Lengua]

I am running a PPTP VPN using an amd 400 mhz k6-2 with 192mb
of RAM. But I get packets lost and poor performance (speed).

Is there a way to improve it? What factors can help?
- Bandwidth?
- CPU power
- RAM?
- Lowering encryption level?

The NICs are 100Mbps and the service used are both dsl, but from
different providers, however without the VPN the performance is acceptable.

[Alejandro Lengua]

How many simultaneous connections are the maximum for this hardware?

[jeroen]

Are you running SME 5.6 because there are known problems with it in combination with VPN. I'd search te forum first.

[Alejandro Lengua]

yes I am running sme 5.6 with update 4 applied.