Re: cryptographic accelerator for a laptop
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! guido
Re: cryptographic accelerator for a laptop
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
Re: cryptographic accelerator for a laptop
Guido Tschakert schrieb: 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! guido Another question comes to my mind. What speed do you get through your VPN and what speed do you expect/need (specially for streaming video). Another problem might be that your CPU cannot handle vpn and video at the same time. (so the speed of the vpn is not your problem) If this is your problem, maybe a new graphic card is a solution (which also isn't quiet easy to change in a laptop) guido
Re: cryptographic accelerator for a laptop
On 2009-01-14, ro...@cs.wisc.edu ro...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: 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. What does top say while you're trying to stream video? (if it's hard to copy it quickly enough to paste in, top | cat gives a one- shot display).
cryptographic accelerator for a laptop
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
