Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

We are looking into utilising OpenVPN for out-of-office workers who would be running mobile broadband in rural areas. Typical data across the wire would be SQL queries for custom applications and not much else.

I agree with Patrick, SSH would do nicely. You could even setup a tunnel, and the sql queries could hit localhost:3306 (for mysql for example) and connect, encrypted to a remote server. At 2-3KB/sec, I wouldn't expect the ability to have too many people concurrently connecting to the database. --                       Fred