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In many cases, StarBand will work with VPN systems. However, the speeds you experience when using VPN will probably be more like dial-up than the normal speeds you are use to with your StarBand system. Read on for more information.

VPN clients use many different secure “protocols” to transmit and receive information. The most popular of these is known as IPSec. VPN clients using IPSec will perform at dial-up speeds (in the range of 20 kbps up and 50 kbps down) across a satellite connection. StarBand cannot increase the performance you receive via an IPSec based VPN client.

There are VPN solutions available that utilize protocols other than IPSec. The most popular alternative protocol is called SSL (Secure Socket Layers). SSL based clients achieve the best performance over satellite, though speeds across any VPN connection are noticeably slower than your typical StarBand connection speeds.

Two popular SSL based VPN systems are V-ONE (www.v-one.com), and Neoteris (www.neoteris.com). We have tested both of these products, and they both worked well. Please note that for a VPN solution to work both your client and the network to which you are connecting must be using the same system. You will not be able to connect to an IPSec based Cisco VPN network using SSL based V-ONE software, for example. Note also that V-ONE and Neoteris are third party VPN solutions. As such, support for their products would be handled directly by V-ONE or Neoteris tech support.

Using a VPN client with your StarBand Model 360 system may require that the client be installed on a computer networked with your StarBand host computer, or on a computer directly connected to the StarBand modem. StarBand customers using the StarBand 481 can install their VPN client on any computer directly connected to the modem.