I am traveling in Spain and will need to connect periodically to my company's VPN in the United States. I will be traveling with a mini computer. Does anyone have experience with this?

I have done this in the past and had no problems. You need an internet connection. You'd access your company's VPN just as you would at home.

If you're renting an apartment make sure you have internet access before the agent/owner leaves.

Shouldn't be a problem but you might run into cases where the access point you are connected to blocks VPN traffic.

"mini computer?" That weighs several hundred pounds! I hope you are traveling with a laptop. Whether you can connect or not depends on the type of VPN protocol used as well as what the ISP in Spain allows.

If you are dealing with a big company using enterprise level VPN, they are probably SSL based like Cisco Anyconnect. I have yet to have SSL based VPN, whether enterprise grade or consumer grade, blocked anywhere.

If you are using L2TP, I had problems at some places.

If you are using PPTP, I found this blocked by most hotels. It is a useless VPN.

Haven't heard the term "mini computer" in years. Something of a throwback to the old IBM days.

I used to connect via VPN to an American organization (from Italy, where I live). I had no problems, but it was using my home network.

Thanks for the replies. Also, I guess my initial question gave some of you some laughs. LOL I also do the same with our IT Department at the office. I am very limited on my computer knowledge - just do what I need to with the software programs.

If you're taking along a smart phone or iPad, no need to drag along a "mini computer", unless your companies system is unique.

While OP has not confirmed the type of VPNs protocol in use, enterprise level VPN require more involved setups. SSL VPN are not natively supported by iPhone/iPad. Need to download an ap specific to the VPN in use.

I've connected to my home VPN many times from Europe. As noted above, occasionally the ports needed for VPN get blocked by the internet connection, so you can't get to your VPN, but that's unusual. (Could happen in the US, too.) Most internet connections should work fine.

Bonus: when you connect to a US VPN, Google thinks you have a US IP address - so you can use Gmail or Google Voice calling to make free phone calls back to the US from your device.

Also noted is a possible stunning loss of speed depending on how data rich are your connections. Others did not mention this as a problem, but I needed to be more aware of which web pages were bandwidth hogs and minimized clicking those pages. I felt VPN connections to be annoying unless the ISP offered > 100kbps effective speed. If you have a decent wireless at home, it would be 1000kbps to 20000kbps kind of number