[Ti] Mac VPN vs. Win VPN ?

[Sambouka]

almost the same speed. VPN is not killing my CPU at all.


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On May 26, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Tarik Bilgin wrote:

>
> On 26 May 2004, at 07:32, Sambouka wrote:
>
>> I am having a problem accessing my company's VPN. Every time i try to 
>> connect using my mac, the internet connection speed drops 
>> substantially. websites take forever to open, and ichat, msn 
>> messenger, and email dont work as well. Whilst my windowz laptop is 
>> able to connect to the vpn with no problems at all.
>>
>> Not sure why this is happening. Any feedback is appreciated.
>
> interesting.
>
> I have never (will do soon) connect to a VPN using the Mac VPN client.
>
> Perhaps the VPN client in OSX is rather slow? Have you tried 
> connecting to another VPN just to test?
>
> VPN's do place a large overhead on the hosts doing the processing. Is 
> your windows laptop of comparable speed?
>
> Next time you connect, try using the top command to see which 
> processes are consuming CPU on your Powerbook.
>
> --
> Tarik
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