On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:27:31AM +0100, Guido Tschakert wrote: > ro...@cs.wisc.edu schrieb: > > I recently started using a VPN with my laptop for when I travel(which is > > quite often) and I have noticed a detectable degradation when going > > through the VPN especially when using streaming video. My laptop is a few > > years old and the problem isn't that big a deal but I was wondering if > > there is a card I could buy that I could offload the work to. Hopefully > > one that isn't very expensive would be nice. Just wondering if anybody has > > any suggestions. > > > > roger > > > > Hello, > > you forgot to mention a lot of information: > > what kind of vpn you are using? > > > what kind of laptop you are using? > > As you want to add hardware, where is the mesg? > > btw: > I am not aware of any pcmcia device, usb device or pci express card > doing cryptographic acceleration, but i am not that expert. But I think > if you find such a thing, it is cheaper to buy a new laptop ;-) > > and another thing: maybe it would help to tweak your vpn config, but > therefore it is needed!
Soekris has minipci hifn cards, but I agree, a crypto accelerator is the wrong solution. -- Jussi Peltola
