I posted a while ago here about our problems with email/VPN, and we did go with a new provider (sonic.net) which has been better. That was a great suggestion.
However, we are still having VPN issues, and this has wasted quite a few hours/days for everyone here in our SF office. Unfortunately, I don't know much about VPN at all (except that it doesn't work most of the time here), and I am getting very frustrated with this whole process. Our IT consultant guy out there insists that it's our SF Linksys wireless router that is having difficulty communicating with the D-Link router out East and that a 'good' solution is to get a D-link router over here too. :roll:
Instead, I would really appreciate any suggestions on a good solid router/etc. configuration to make sure that we will *never* have these, um, fun, VPN/connectivity problems anymore. In SF we would like to have a wireless router that also can distribute our 8 static IP's (ideally, dynamically), and either a wireless or a regular router in NJ. I heard that putting Sonicwall routers on both ends would do the trick. What do ya'll think? Are there other solutions we should try?
Summary:
- desperately need a solid/permanent VPN connection b/w two offices (and a good on-call IT guy in SF, haha)
- 10-15 people in SF, both wireless or wired in
- 20-25 people in NJ, usually wired in although wireless could be good
- Windows VPN client
- Both SF and NJ on DSL
- Currently D-Link in NJ, Linksys WRT54G in SF (this really shouldn't matter)
However, we are still having VPN issues, and this has wasted quite a few hours/days for everyone here in our SF office. Unfortunately, I don't know much about VPN at all (except that it doesn't work most of the time here), and I am getting very frustrated with this whole process. Our IT consultant guy out there insists that it's our SF Linksys wireless router that is having difficulty communicating with the D-Link router out East and that a 'good' solution is to get a D-link router over here too. :roll:
Instead, I would really appreciate any suggestions on a good solid router/etc. configuration to make sure that we will *never* have these, um, fun, VPN/connectivity problems anymore. In SF we would like to have a wireless router that also can distribute our 8 static IP's (ideally, dynamically), and either a wireless or a regular router in NJ. I heard that putting Sonicwall routers on both ends would do the trick. What do ya'll think? Are there other solutions we should try?
Summary:
- desperately need a solid/permanent VPN connection b/w two offices (and a good on-call IT guy in SF, haha)
- 10-15 people in SF, both wireless or wired in
- 20-25 people in NJ, usually wired in although wireless could be good
- Windows VPN client
- Both SF and NJ on DSL
- Currently D-Link in NJ, Linksys WRT54G in SF (this really shouldn't matter)
