Mapped drives over vpn are slow

azz00

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May 27, 2015
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Hi everyone.

I have set up a sever in the office running Windows server 2012 r2. All of the files are stored on the server. In the office there are around 5 desktops that have access to the mapped network drives to work on.

This works really well. However, I am now trying to set up 2 laptops to use the mapped drives from outside the office network.

I have created a vpn to which I can connect the laptops and I can map the network drives on the server fine. My problem comes when I try to open any of the files on the laptops from outside the office network.

For example on the laptop I want to open a sketchup 3d model file to edit and then save back to the server. However when I open the file on the laptop it just spins out like the connection is too slow? It's worth pointing out that some of these files can be over 100mb.

Is there a setting I have missed anywhere?

Thanks