Hi All,
Right, quick background.
Im an IT engineer for a large UK based organisation, and have just completed setting up our new Remote Access mechanism 'DirectAccess' by Microsoft, everything is working well for all other users of the system, except me ! which is a little annoying, since im the one who set it all up.
I have a Vigor 2830 connected to a Virgin Media superhub (running in modem mode), and my work laptop connects successfully to the DirectAccess service, but im getting aweful speeds, in the region of 400Kbps and pings up in the 600ms range. Oddly im getting a pretty consistent 2.76Mbps upload speed, cant explain that one.
The technology behind DA likes IPv6, but the way we have configured things uses IPHTTPS tunnel as a transition technology, then forms IPSec tunnels within that one. So when my laptop connects to my home network, its getting a standard IPv4 address from the router, which it then uses to connect to DA an get an IPv6 address for its virtual iphttps Adapter.
Iv disconnected the Router from the system and plumbed the work laptop streight onto the Virgin modem and the speed shot straight up, proving the problem lyes somewhere in the router.
Im gonna admit, iv got a lot of random config on the router, port forwarding, NAT, QoS, custom firewall rules etc, so to rule that stuff out, i took a copy of the router config and reset the box back to factory defaults. The 400Kbps remained the same.
Iv drilled through every menu on the router, and sat staring at the syslog utility for a few hours, but im at a loss, anyone ever had much experience with anything like this before ?
