Hi Guys,
Thanks for all the feedback.
On 17/11/2011 18:37, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I would make sure the company put in a purpose built VPN gateway so
> that people can connect with normal VPN clients, such as CISCO,
> JUNIPER, Checkpoint etc.
> There are very cheap VPN boxes out there from about £50 upwards, and
> they actually work!
I'm not sure which model our router is, I'll check next time I'm in the 
office (or maybe 'phone and ask), but it's definitely a Draytek Vigor 
with WiFi and three aerials, which seems from Draytek's site to suggest 
it already supports a number of VPN connection methods.
One of the support company's arguments for offering only PPTP was that 
our available bandwidth is too low to allow too many other machines to 
have VPN access. My counter was that what I wanted to do was have a copy 
of the relevant data from their fileserver on my fileserver and 
synchronise overnight, when I'll have a minimal effect on other users 
and also do the data transfers off-tarrif (midnight to 8am).
Time I think to make my case more assertively.
ATB,
         Gordon.
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