vpn

[corpse]

A friend works at home for a larger company and has a vpn set up on his computer to the company network. His connection is very slow and when we looked in network settings, it shows the vpn connection in dial-up options and vpn settings [as I guess it should].

In Internet Explorer, tools options, it shows the vpn as a dial up as stated and then just below that, the "dial whenever a network connection is not present" is checked.

My question is, does this mean that the connection is a dial up connection? Or is this just the way vpns are set up?

[+JuggerNaut+]

there are three different types of vpn's. intranet, extranet, and remote access. remote access is most likely what your friend is using and it is most likely a dialup connection.

[Foo]

A friend works at home for a larger company and has a vpn set up on his computer to the company network. His connection is very slow and when we looked in network settings, it shows the vpn connection in dial-up options and vpn settings [as I guess it should].

In Internet Explorer, tools options, it shows the vpn as a dial up as stated and then just below that, the "dial whenever a network connection is not present" is checked.

My question is, does this mean that the connection is a dial up connection? Or is this just the way vpns are set up?

Well, does he have a broadband connection, or is he plugging the PC modem into a phone line to connect?

[corpse]

At home it is broadband, but at the office he's not sure.

[Underpants?]

I'm only familiar with 3 types of vpn connections, so this may be more of an exclusive answer but
cisco vpn uses either dial-up or broadband, and if the connection is broadband, all you see is a virtual adapter (Local Area Connection ##, for example in winxp) which does not in effect add a dial-up connection--so if it's cisco then your answer is most likely yes, unless this guy has multiple connections for redundancy.
Openvpn does the same kind of thing with a win32 TAP adapter for broadband, but has to be bonded to a pre-existing dial-up connection for a telephone vpn connection.
Here's my best stab at advice: watch how he connects, if it just connects quickly and without the heinous shrieking of a modem it's likely not dial-up.

[Doombrain]

I'm only familiar with 3 types of vpn connections, so this may be more of an exclusive answer but
cisco vpn uses either dial-up or broadband, and if the connection is broadband, all you see is a virtual adapter (Local Area Connection ##, for example in winxp) which does not in effect add a dial-up connection--so if it's cisco then your answer is most likely yes, unless this guy has multiple connections for redundancy.
Openvpn does the same kind of thing with a win32 TAP adapter for broadband, but has to be bonded to a pre-existing dial-up connection for a telephone vpn connection.
Here's my best stab at advice: watch how he connects, if it just connects quickly and without the heinous shrieking of a modem it's likely not dial-up.

vpn uses either dial-up or broadband,

NO SHIT

[Underpants?]

Breaking into grandpa's cough syrup a bit early aren't we?

[GODLIKE]

IE's "dial whenever a network connection is not present" settings don't mean your using dialup. They can be used to make IE activate the VPN whenever IE or outlook is run, as well...