Why would my VPN connection work better than my direct connection?

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Published on 2011-03-06T21:29:52Z Indexed on 2011/03/07 0:12 UTC
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I have a new Windows 7 64bit laptop, which connects wirelessly to a ASDL router/modem.

With my regular connection, page requests often time out - usually with form submissions.

When I use the same connection to connect to a VPN (using OpenVPN) the requests seem to work fine. These are not requests to sites that are only available via the VPN - just regular websites

I think this is specific to this new laptop (provided and set up by my employer) - other machines work fine.

Many thanks for any advice, James

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