Query on VPN client speed

Bobbin

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Just curious, this isn't really my area of expertise obviously...

A bunch of people who use a Cisco VPN client on their PC's complain that it is slower over a shared fiber link than it is using their own 3G cards.

Aside from other obvious bandwidth related issues/congestion/firewalls that could be possible on the fiber line - Someone once told me that VPN effectively halves the bandwidth for each session. So the more people that are using VPN on one line the more that line's speed is halved. 1mb becomes 512 becomes 256 etc... How is this true??? :wtf:

Maybe someone can elaborate on what this person meant?
 
Does not half the bandwidth.
Lets say one user connects, he can effectively use all the bandwidth, all depends on what he is doing over the vpn line and what bandwidth is available. So if one user can max it out it's obvious that other users will have issues.
What's the VPN server bandwidth and what's the fibre bandwidth?
 
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