You have quite a few users as you say... A VPN connection should be as simple as 
a shortcut on the desktop of the users laptop to connect to the VPN.  Keep in mind 
that no matter what solution you use, 512kb or 2Mbps is not much bandwidth... Even 
one user is going to notice significant wait times on large files... And ofcourse 
the bandwidth is divided proportionally the more users you have... It doesn't matter 
what solution you use.. The convenience of internet access to remote files comes 
with the burden of 'slow' internet connections. 

Also, don't forget that just because you have 25 users connected to the VPN doesn't 
mean that all 25 users are active and using the bandwidth available at the same time. 
 That is why a webserver can host thousands of users.. It's because each user only 
connects for milliseconds at a time to download a quick page.





On Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 9:16 am, Wayne Davis wrote:

>I've got VPN set up, but only use it for myself. I think it will be too complicated 

>for users, and not very reliable over our 512KB connection once more than a couple 

>of people connect. (We're upgrading soon to a 2Mbit full duplex connection, but 
even 

>if we have 25 concurrent users I don't think it's going to be useable.)

>I also looked at WEBDAV, and couldn't find any way to easily map out our hundred 

>or so users to their files without alot of administrative overhead. I was thinking 

>something along the lines of Novell Netstorage, but for windows. Something along 

>the lines of WebDav or Sharepoint may be our best solution. I may end up running 

>Novell SLED in a VMWare machine or something. It looks like it's going to be complicated 

>no matter which route I go. 

>Thanks for your time and ideas.  

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