Question about VPN

Lets say if i connect to my company's cisco ASA firewall via remote access VPN. Am i using their ISP connection? For example we have 100/10 mbps line and i have 15/5 mbps line for my home connection. Am i going to be getting 100/10 mbps throughput?

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networker050184

Well, obviously your home connection is going to dictate how much data up/down regardless of VPN or not. As far as where you internet traffic will go depends on the configuration of the VPN. Look into the concept of split tunneling.

ClapDemCheeks

networker050184 wrote: »

Well, obviously your home connection is going to dictate how much data up/down regardless of VPN or not. As far as where you internet traffic will go depends on the configuration of the VPN. Look into the concept of split tunneling.

I know that with split tunnel traffic destined for the internet is routed from your home router and traffic specified in the VPN configuration is destined to the VPN gateway.

networker050184

Ok, so you know either way traffic has to flow over your home connection right? All traffic will be limited to what you have their.

vasyvasy

The bandwidth for any of your connections (via the VPN or not) is limited by your home connection to the 15/5 mbps

it_consultant

You also have to consider the firewall VPN throughput, which is probably faster than your 15/5 connection, but when you start talking about multiple VPN sessions your share of the throughput will be divided accordingly.

gorebrush

Well if you start accessing the internet through the VPN then you would certainly receive 100Mb down to the company end of the VPN, but you'll still only get 15Mb to your house.

Besides, you'd also be logged by any corporate internet logs too...