I often visit my girlfriend who studies at Purdue. During my visits, sometimes when I am on campus, I would like to access my school’s network via VPN. When I use cisco anyconnect to access my school’s VPN from the Purdue network, the speed is unusably slow, much slower than when I do the same from a cafe, etc. Has anyone had success using an external (non-Purdue) VPN from the Purdue network?
If on WiFi connect to eduroam, assuming your home school supports it. No speed restrictions on that ssid. If you connect to the guest At&t wifi, then not only is it speed restricted, but it gets carried off campus through at&T so speed will be a lot slower
This is why I really recommend eduroam over PAL.
(Look at your home school for their instructions in setting up eduroam, the above only works for Purdue’s users)
Then there is interference and heavy traffic in addition to the slow VPN where are u connecting from and Purdue’s Network is slow due to high demand of the students need to move to a less density wireless area or
cafe wifi (be careful with wifi cafes your traffic can be intercepted and viewed) VPN is ok
I suspect it’s just slow VPN + horrible load balancing on Purdue’s Network
Qos - (Quality of Service) it may not prioritized your traffic because you are not logging in as a Purdue student
Do an ookla speed test to see
Thanks! This seems to work for me.