We are running a pure Windows 2000 enviroment, Server and Workstations, with Arev 3.12. We are trying to allow remote access for our remote users through VPN. We do not want to allow Terminal Server access to our servers. I am testing the VPN access from home, Win2000 and ADSL, and everything works fine except Arev. It is taking a long time to load and navigate through the system. We are currently using the NT Service ver 1.5. If we upgrade to the 2000 Service will that speed VPN up? Is there anything I can do on my 2000 workstation at home to speed things up using the current NT Service? Does the 2000 service speed up the rest of the system?

How do you connect from home? Thru the internet? And what is the speed of the connect? I think VPN is just a security item. I don't think it does anything to slow down the data transfer. It might encrypt and decrypt, and if so, that really does not take time.

I think your speed problem is the connect. AREV definately is data intensive. It will move alot of data thru your connection. Several megs of data just to logon, if I remember correctly.

Unless your connection is like 512K or 1000k, I would think it would be a very slow process.

Normal "in office" networks have a speed of 10mbit(10 mega bits) or 100mbit (100 mega bits). And that is quite faster than 512k.

It's probably a CPU issue. You'd need something like CPUPLUS and AREVFIX.COM to make this workable for large numbers of users on a 64k link. At about 40 concurrent users you'd begin to see degradation in performance depending on bandwidth and application processing demands.

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My internet connection at home is a 1.5mb ADSL line. We all know you really dont get that fast of a connection. I have seen it go up to 700kb(kilo bits) a sec. The system does log on to Arev pretty slow and navigating through the menus is slow also. I dont believe that it is the cpu as I am running a 1.2GHZ Athlon with 256MB of ram and all the other programs run fine while it is running. Is there any switch I should run to make it speed up? I currently use (AREV.EXE GGUSER /XM4096) Would going to the 2000 service and using a pure TCP/IP speed up the process?

Sorry - duplicate post.

Because you will be running full screen Windows graphics, this can increase the delivery overheads, as you are downloading pixels, not merely screen arrays. If you can attain full-screen DOS video, then run in this mode. Optionally, try reducing the screen color resolution and dimensions (try 640*480) to reduce screen detail and see if this offers any speed improvements.

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I am running a 1.2GHZ Athlon workstation and a PIII 500MHZ for the server where Arev is housed, so I dont think it is a CPU issue. We are only running 5 users at a time. Could the problem be that the DSL line is not as fast as a LAN connection. I understand that Arev sends about 1MB of info to initalize, so startup should be kind of slow, but navigating the menus is also slow.

Jason,

Arev is moving a lot of information back and forth between the server and your workstation. If this is transferring via VPN (regardless of internet access speed), the access to Arev will be painfully slow. One option I use currently is to have a machine on site that is running PC Anywhere in network (TCP/IP) host mode. Once VPNed in to the network, I use PC Anywhere (network TCP/IP remote) to connect to the host machine. This keeps the Arev processing on the LAN, while transferring little other than video on WAN. The processing speed is not bad… quite workable even.

FYI, the LAN machine is a 166mhz Pentium (resurrected a few times) running Win 95 on a NT network with TCP/IP as the only protocol. On my side, I'm running Win98SE on a 550mhz Pentium III. The WAN connections are DSL and cable. PC Anywhere is version 8.0. VPN is PPTP.

Regards,

Eric Drews

Drews Enterprises

edrews@drews-ent.com

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