Observations of v8 l2tp behavior.
ASG1 - v7.x running on ASG110/120 in my house on business cable modem connection
ASG2 - v8.102 running virtualized on a hosted ESX 4.x server with a data connection fast enough to move a 1GB file in 30seconds.
Senario 1
Connect from OSX 10.6.6 to ASG2. Able to browse, email, etc. Start streaming a movie from Netflix and the movie stops within 2 - 5 minutes with Netflix stating my connection has slowed... blah blah... The movie never recovers. Disconnect. Connect to ASG1 and can watch the rest of the movie. This is repeatable.
Senario 2
Connect to ASG2. Use remote desktop (Cord for Mac) to work on some windows machines. At one hour and 1 minute of connection time as shown by the timer in my menu bar, traffic stops flowing but the connection is still in place. Disconnect. Reconnect to ASG2 and the remote desktop sessions are right where I left off. This has been reproduced multiple times with the connection to ASG2. Connections to ASG1 stay valid for hours.
Background if you are interested:
ASG1 is to be moved to my present location. I am stationed overseas. Attached to the military. ASG2 has been created in preparation for the network shutdown at the house. All services have been moved out of the house and are running on the hosted ESX server behind ASG2. Yes, this is all for personal use. Family email, web, genealogy, voip, jabber, etc.
VPN is vital to me for these reasons:
1. Netflix access outside the US. I am a paying customer and a US citizen who's orders have taken him, and soon to follow, his family outside of the US. I'm not here to debate if this is right or wrong.
2. Helps when placing orders and such as many sites try to auto detect your country. The pages are then changed based on the country. Steam does this, so firing up the vpn allows me to pay in dollars since I have not found a menu option in Steam to override currency choice.
3. Security. Wifi is all over the place but the is not safe.
I'm at a loss as to the behavior I am seeing with the VPN connection. Thoughts?
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