| reply to jmmilner
Re: Client that actually works with RV016? Glad to hear you are getting some success.
If you have PPoE/DSL on the RV016, make sure you at least set the MTU there at 1492. Improper MTU can really muck with you network wise in general but as for the QuickVPN, I've never personally had to set it below 1492 running on PPoE to get it going but have had to lower it down to ~1400 using other VPN clients (and over other ISPs). The FAQs and tools on this site are enormously helpful in understanding these and determining your proper numbers. It's good that you've taken them in.
Check your DL router doesn't need a firmware upgrade too.
The RV016 is a solid router but that quickvpn leaves a lot to be desired. The plus side of using the quickvpn though is being able to manage the once configured client(s) centrally through the router... such as it will now show up on the VPN summary page showing what clients are connected, date/time, etc. and also being able to change the passwords on the client access page if need be.
It's good that you've now worked around this not only to get it going but also other similar, as well as knowledge gain, which is always a plus - but I'd still consider swinging on back to RDP if for anything a fall back.
If interested in testing it out, all you'd need at this point (since you had it going previously internally and if that config has not changed) is to setup a port forward in the RV016 to port 3389 pointing at the LAN ip of choice. Then fire up the RDP client on your PC and point at the RV016's wan IP and you should be in. I personally recommend when using the RDP client is set the Options->Experience at the lowest connection type (Modem) which turns off things like loading your local pc's printers remotely, turns off themes etc and runs a lot faster. If that works, you can always secure it up later such as I described earlier but I personally wouldn't leave that port forward turned on when you aren't using it until you do.
Thanks for the update and do post future results. |
| said by JamesLevinworth :
I personally recommend when using the RDP client is set the Options->Experience at the lowest connection type (Modem) which turns off things like loading your local pc's printers remotely, turns off themes etc and runs a lot faster.
Not knowing if you need this info but just to correct myself here, the option to turn off loading local printers remotely is under Options->Local Resources (not part of 'Experience'). If you have no plans on using it per that session then I recommend unchecking this as well since it's not only bandwidth drain, it will automatically want to install your printer's drivers on the remote machine and leaves them there until you uninstall them. |
