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We have our development office in Ukraine. Initially, I wanted to have a separate Spiceworks installation there only to find out that Spiceworks is blocking the ISP’s range. I am pretty much reduced to using the US server collect inventory over the existing VPN link between the offices. Is there anyone here using their Spiceworks installation in this manner? If so, can you share your experience and provide input on how to go about it with minimal impact to bandwidth. The VPN bandwidth between the offices vary with load at antwhere from 3 to 7 Mbits/sec.

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VPN’s are by their nature transperent so no software (including Spiceworks) would even know you’re using one.

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My question wasn’t about whether it would work or not. No doubt it will. The question is: at what cost in terms of bandwidth?

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We have one central server at HQ and 6 remote collectors total (one at each remote site). Each remote site is connected via site-to-site VPN back to HQ. We even have one at a facility with only a T1, and I am not aware of any bandwidth issues being caused by Spiceworks.