New STM/Virgin traffic managent confirmed - so that's why it's slow!

[Zhadnost]

Originally Posted by bradkb

Had enough of throttled connection, working from home has become a nightmare lately, and found that sometimes I have to use works 3G modem just to remote desktop to a clients server, never had these issues before STM.

I'm surprised if you use a connection primarily for work that you abuse it so much.

(daytime limits are quite high).

Can you really not use RDP with 5Mbit/256Kbit ?
I use tightVNC instead, (which can comfortably handle low rates like this).
RDPs early life was application services a bit like x-windows but 10 years later, so you wouldn't think it would need a lot of bandwidth.

You might be better spent troubleshooting your VPN to find out why there is so much traffic on your home connection.

[bradkb]

Problem is I am normally on 5 or 6 different servers at any one time, one customer has 19 global offices and trying to trouble shoot a problem for them when I can only open one connection is painful. Also cannot use tools like VNC for many customers as they do not want none authorised 3rd party applications installed.

Last week trying to connect to a server in Phenoix and a server in London at the same time resulted in multiple disconnects and timeouts, even had it on just a single connection.

Also it was embarrasing trying to support an onsite admin guy, he was shadowing my remote connection and as I am saying "if you follow me clicking here... oh wait, damn connection gone...." which also kicked him off the server.

Perhaps you might need a business line (with the concomitant SLAs and QoS) for this sort of work, rather than a consumer line?

If you are expected to support customers from your home, shouldn't your business/boss supply you with the appropriate services to do this (mine used to, when I did this sort of thing, as consumer ADSL/Cable couldn't support this - I had both BT and VM lines).

[bradkb]

Originally Posted by foreverwar

If you are expected to support customers from your home, shouldn't your business/boss supply you with the appropriate services to do this (mine used to, when I did this sort of thing, as consumer ADSL/Cable couldn't support this - I had both BT and VM lines).

Would be nice, my old job paid for my broadband, new job doesnt as they provide the 3g data card. But never had issues before STM.

Its like I said in another forum, would you be happy going to a shop and buying a 2L bottle of milk only to get home and finding only 500ml in the bottle, ringing the shop to be told "Yes its our FUP, in peak hours we only provide that much but you can buy as many as you want, its unlimited" Or is it just me that thinks broadband providers are taking the mickey?