8. VPN Performance

• SonicWall SOHO TZW 10...
• • California Computer Center
  • $338.25

Since I didn't ask Sonicwall for two TZW's, I did my VPN throughput testing using my Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop running Sonicwall's Global VPN client. I used my laptop's 10/100 Ethernet port running at 100Mbps full duplex and plugged it into one of the switch ports in my network's main router. This connected me to the TZW's WAN port which was plugged into another of the router's ports. I then added a new VPN connection using the Global Client's wizard and I connected up on the first try. The test results are shown in Table 1.

Table 1: IPsec VPN Performance test results

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