Richard Simpson

Hi Guys,

My company has just installed VPN on my laptop. I would like to use my laptop with my home broadband connection and I was wondering if anyone has managed to connect to a Virtual Private Network through a NTL Cable connection?

NTL have told me that it is possible and that a number of people are doing this, but won't tell me how as they don't support the service.

Any ideas - mail me offline if you want

Cheers

Richard

stevencotton

Your IT guys at work should be able to do it all for you.

Steve.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

As long as your work network is set up for it, all you should need to do is install the VPN client on your home PC. This uses the IP address of your network to attach to & authenticates to the domain using your normal username/password. You may need to import an LMHOSTS file of your networks resources as name resolution sometimes not too clever.

W98 client pretty flaky, but W2K/XP seems OK.

Once connection made, go into the properties of the VPN client & remove silly protocols & leave with just IP - no point throttling bandwidth.

Recently set up quite a few to our office & those with broadband are able to use things like Sage/Word/Outlook(via Exchange) as if they are actually in the office. Its just about passable with HH or dial-up, but not if you're impatient

Typically, having set up remote workers for the office with ADSL access, I can't get the poxy service [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Dizzy

I have VPN @ home to connect here at work....
works fine most of the time

I use either VNC or Netmeeting.