Very slow internet connections using Wingate

[sib]

My organization (about 20 people) shares a 256K link by using Wingate running on WinXP Pro. The problem is that the connections are exceedingly slow and sometimes are dropped. I fully realize that it is not possible to get very fast connections sharing only 256Kbps but I believe that what we are experiencing borders on the ridiculous.

We are filtering high bandwidth content (such as chat, streaming media etc.), using the Puresight plugin to Wingate. So we don't believe that our bandwidth is being misused.

Why are we still experiencing such slow connections? I notice that many WRP control sessions are made to the server from different client softwares. Could this be an issue?

Is it possible that upgrading our proxy server OS to Win 2k3 will make a difference?

Are there any configuration changes to Wingate that could possibly make a difference?

We will upgrade our bandwidth to 1 Mbps but we would like to deal with any other issues that affects our connection speeds first.

[Nev]

Hi,

The multiple WRP sessions could be the problem choking your available number of connections.

Upgrading the OS should not be necessary, I have Win2k boxes that have run SOHO networks like yours for years [at least 6] with only patches and updates applied.

Could you try limiting the applications which are spawning all the WRP sessions perhaps and see if that improves the speed.

[sib]

Hi Nev,

Thanks very much for your suggestion. I will reduce the number of WRP sessions and let you know how it goes afterwards.