Saving files through a site-to-site VPN slowness?

I have a user who when they go to save files (Word/Excel) files over the vpn
connection it takes somewhere between 20-30 seconds to save. Is this normal?
What is a good workaround so they dont take so long to save.

 

"WetBehindEars", that's a very general statement huh?

Famous consultant statement "IT DEPENDS", on your link speed, your server
i/o, etc.

It would be better if the users saved the documents on a server in the local
net or you ought have a better link, if this is the case.

 

Is the link too busy, overloaded?

The best option would be to save in a server in the local net or upgrade
your link speed (port speed, hardware), if this is the case.

 

That's the price we pay for not maintaining servers at remote sites or for
allowing users to roam to remote sites & still have "realtime" access to
their files.

I have a client that has a corporate office of about 35 users with two
remote sites, each of about 5 users, but everyone stores their files on the
server at the corporate office via a hardware VPN. Corporate office has a T-1
and the remote sites have DSL at about 1 MB.

Save times are similar to what you experience, but in this case, the
slowness is justified because many files are shared between users at the
corporate office & remote users, and users often need to roam between the
corporate office & both the remote offices, opening files from the same
folder regardless of their physical location.

If the user needs to save often, then have the user work from a copy on the
desktop but NOT forget to copy it back to the server at the end of the day.
Not a good habit, but workable on occasion.

If you can't live with the delay, take net_admin's advice & either increase
the bandwidth or provide a local file server at the remote location.

 

Could "Offline Files" be configured in some way to make this copying back
automatic?