VPN - ADSL/shaped/unshaped question

[undesign]

Not sure if this is the right sub-forum, I also posted in the Network and Security sub-forum (and apologies for the n00bness), but my wife has started working from home recently - she works for a large corporate. She connects into a corporate VPN - from where she accesses email, SAP and Office documents. My question is whether this services is ADSL shaped?

Speeds is typically OK, but does get sluggish every now and then. I have a 4Mbps line, currently using WebAfrica's prepaid shaped ADSL.

Thanks

 

[AnomalyNexus]

Local is always unshaped.

Grab one of those 10gig/1gig IS accounts...likely to be cheapest option, but depends on volume of data.

Not much you can do about sluggishness imo.

 

[Prof.Merlin]

I VPN in to 2 or 3 places using a 30gig local WA IS account. Works perfectly

 

[Pada]

Local is always unshaped.

Are you sure about this statement? I've had heavy lagg on my IS local only accounts from OpenWeb, where as my latency on the Axxess local only (unshaped) account was fine...

 

[undesign]

Thanks for the replies. I'm going to give unshaped a go to see if it makes a difference. Some people reckon that the VPN protocol may be shaped.

 

[drukkie]

WA 30GB accounts flies on VPN....