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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?

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.

corpse wrote: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?

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

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.

Underpants? wrote: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

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

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...