Bandwidth and delay problems

I connect from home to office via a Citrix terminal server session on vpn.
I subscribe to a fairly cheap (ie low bandwidth) cable internet connection
(2Mb/s).
This may or may not account for an irritating persistent delay between
keystrokes being engaged on the keyboard and those keystrokes appearing on
the screen. I think it may be at least a contributory factor as I used to
rent more bandwidth, recently reduced to save costs, and it *seemed* to be
smoother at that time but I would be the first to discount subjective
memories.

It looks as though the keystroke has to get logged at the remote server,
then bounced back to my machine as acknowledgement, before it will appear on
my monitor. The delay is typically 5 to 10 seconds.

It is possible that my purchasing additional bandwidth may help. However I
am reluctant to take this step as I would only do this in order to connect
to work, and I anticipate problems getting the employer to pay for it. He
would argue that I would enjoy personal benefit from the increased bandwidth
when not working.

I might have more joy getting the employer to pay for a faster connection if
the employer could be confident that the additional bandwidth would only be
consumed when on company business.

So I was thinking along the lines of a "reverse the charges" arrangement,
where I dial up to the office and all of a sudden, just for the length of
that session, I have 5 lane highway at my disposal instead of a dirt-track.

Is this rocket science? Or is the facility already available?

PS this may be the wrong newsgroup. My apologies if so and any suggestions
where I should post it instead would be welcome.



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