It's alive!

A bit of digging around turned up an article on the Microsoft support database and the solution was to update the firmware on the router to 1.02.01 (scary but easy) and then set up port forwarding for ports 47 and 1723 to my laptop. I've been connected for an hour and sent/received 300K/1.2Mb - bandwidth issues? What bandwidth issues?

As a supposedly high tech company, we don't seem to be making a huge effort to get people to work from home. An adsl router and a bit of ethernet cable will connect any of the company laptops at a reasonable enough speed to do most things at the same speed that you could in the office, and probably get more productive time from people if they aren't driving for an hour and half each day. The current habit seems to be for people to work in the office most of the time and lock their laptops in a safe overnight.

Go figure.