Probably a dumb question - sorry

[Little-Miss]

How much bandwidth does a VPN connection use?

 

Here at Hogwarts we had a bog standard broadband line put in for admin staff so they could vpn into school and still use SIMS etc.

 

We've just recieved a letter from them saying that they are no longer using a fair usage policy and are going to give us 50GB a month and then charge us more after that.

 

Would that be ok for what we do?

[jamesreedersmith]

Sorry but its as simple as how much data you transfer over the VPN (plus a small amount for overhead). if you are copying 2gb files daily you can eat a lot quite quickly. if however its only RDP traffic its not a huge amount (depending on number of users!)

[AngryTechnician]

That's very much a "how long is a piece of string" question, but if all they are doing is using SIMS and maybe transferring a few files, then 50GB a month should be more than enough.

[Michael]

If you're literally RDPing in, then 50GB should be plenty - however, as above, all depends how many users and how long are they connected for.

[Little-Miss]

Sweet, i did think as much. Was just worried if there was something i wasnt thinking about.

 

There's two of them and they are on most of the day, but there isnt really any file transfering.

 

Thanks!

[CHR1S]

We've just recieved a letter from them saying that they are no longer using a fair usage policy and are going to give us 50GB a month and then charge us more after that.

 

Just be aware that you can now walk away from your contract without penalty, just in case there are better offers around

[Little-Miss]

Its a difficult one really as we hopefully wont be here much longer, its a shame we're going to be tied into another 12 month contract.