{"id":20563,"date":"2008-10-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/10\/15\/disable-your-wireless-network-card-to-speed-up-vpning\/"},"modified":"2008-10-15T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T10:00:00","slug":"disable-your-wireless-network-card-to-speed-up-vpning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081015-00\/?p=20563","title":{"rendered":"Disable your wireless network card to speed up VPN&#8217;ing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> As a follow-up to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/11\/20\/1109013.aspx\"> my tip on speeding up connecting via RAS and a SmartCard<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been told that another trick you can do is to disable your wireless networking card before initiating the VPN connection. Wireless networking cards are a huge attack surface, and the VPN software spends a lot of time trying to secure it. <\/p>\n<p> I don&#8217;t have a wireless networking card on the machine I use at home to connect to the work network, so I haven&#8217;t tried it, but who knows, maybe it&#8217;ll work for you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to my tip on speeding up connecting via RAS and a SmartCard, I&#8217;ve been told that another trick you can do is to disable your wireless networking card before initiating the VPN connection. Wireless networking cards are a huge attack surface, and the VPN software spends a lot of time trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-20563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>As a follow-up to my tip on speeding up connecting via RAS and a SmartCard, I&#8217;ve been told that another trick you can do is to disable your wireless networking card before initiating the VPN connection. Wireless networking cards are a huge attack surface, and the VPN software spends a lot of time trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}