They can take our freedom ...

The last day of my two weeks sick leave and appropriately enough the sky has turned a rather ominous shade of grey. Alicia is at her mother's house for a whole three days (unless she decides to come back on the bus sooner) - it will be strange without her as she's been with us for nine days in a row. I'm off to Birmingham tomorrow as well, so it feels like things are getting back to the usual routine.

I still can't get my VPN connection to work via the router, and the IT manager was a bit sniffy when I asked him what settings to use. "We're thinking about stopping the VPN service because of bandwidth issues" he said. I transfer maybe 20 or 30 Mb of data in a day - hardly a massive overhead. If a lot of people are using it, then there is obviously a need for it. I am saving the company the cost of providing an ISDN connection (which would be painfully slow in any case) and the security would be pretty robust. To make it even more annoying, I had an urgent problem to resolve last week (when I was supposedly off sick) and in dialling up a 56K connection without a firewall got hit by a worm on my work laptop. At a pinch I can revert to our ADSL/ICS solution for days when I'm at home but it is a bit frustrating and awkward.

Anyone got a Microsoft VPN connection working through a Linksys WAG54G router?