Are you all up to date on your service packs? Those are easy to miss. Our IT department configured a dual threaded VPN connection which helped with our speeds.
Is your computer at home connecting to the VPN through WiFi or is to connected directly to your router? When I switched from WiFi to wired my internet speeds
jumped by 1400%. I had an old coaxial connection in my living room. I took that out and ran an ethernet cable through my basement to the router. It’s an ugly wiring job but it works! I’m getting a little network hub so when my kids have to use their Chromebooks
for distance learning they can be wired as well.
I also checked out my ArcGIS license so I wouldn’t have to maintain a connection to the license server.
It wouldn’t work for SQL but if you’re the only one editing file geodatabases then you can make a map package of your MXD and bring it to either Microsoft One
Drive or your local machine, just be sure to update the edited files back to your server at the end of the day.
With the ethernet, the checked out license and moving my project to my One Drive account I can work without using a VPN connection at all, that makes it better
for everyone else trying to connect to the home office.
If you can’t move the data then when you work in an MXD make sure that you set a folder connection directly to your project folder, that will help with lag.
And in your map properties set your home geodatabase to the one you have to edit.
If all else fails, kick everyone in your house off the internet! Good luck!
Meghan C. McGaffin
GIS Coordinator
From: Northeast Arc Users Group <[log in to unmask]>
On Behalf Of Alina Taus
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 4:14 PM
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Subject: Slow ArcGIS connection across VPN
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Hello,
Like many people nowadays I find myself working from home and having to use a VPN connection to get on our network at work. Most of my work involves using ArcDesktop (v10.6.1) to directly connect to a SQL database or various file geodatabases
either for editing or maintenance. I am experiencing a significant lag and was wondering if anybody has any advice on what I can do to improve my productivity and keep my sanity! Things I have tried so far:
Option 1: Use decent laptop to VPN into office network and Remote Desktop to my work PC, which at the time was still at the office. This was working ok, but I was having a lot of dropped connections, every 10-15 clicks my RDP screen would
just freeze. That might have had to do with my internet or the VPN client. To fix the dropped connections IT suggested I just take my Desktop PC home and just use the VPN.
Option 2: Use VPN connection on work PC, which is now home. This is extremely slow, I waited 5 minutes for Arc to open up a map and it takes 20-30 seconds for the map to redraw.
I did find a GeoNet post about this issue but it was from 2012. The consensus was that Option 1 was the way to go. Is that still the case? Is there anything else I could do? I know I could create a checkout replica to edit locally, but
I am afraid of possible crashes when trying to sync back to the SDE. I am now stuck with Option 2 but strongly considering going back to Option 1 as soon as I can get a laptop with ArcDesktop on it back into the office so I can RDP into it.
Thanks for any advice!
Alina Taus
Alina Taus, GISP
GIS Manager
Greater Augusta Utility District
12 Williams St, Augusta, ME, 04330
Tel: (207) 622-3701 x4269
Cell: (207) 485-7585
Email: [log in to unmask]
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