Hey all,
Wondering how do you see a large dropoff in internet speeds when you’re using your v.p.n? I’m in an apartment with 100 mb down and 250 mb up and gigabyte fiber with 1GB down and up back in the place I run a vpn (residential address with pivpn), and I only get 12 MB down and 1.5 MB up which is a degradation of 90% and 99+% on download and upload.
Wondering have other people ran into such an issue or resolved such things? I’d love to hear from you or read more sources.
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Have you measured speed when you were still there locally?
Also lots of hops in-between the endpoints will likely degrade your throughput.
I have yes it was near gigabyte speeds
I might’ve been clear. I meant like the actual VPN connection but tested locally
Which protocol are you using? OpenVPN or Wireguard? Wireguard is a lot faster.
Wireguard. I’ve also tried openvpn on a corporate network and found it was a bit faster but still large dropoffs in speed
Use cable!!!
Of course it’s slower. You know how a VPN works, right? It involves another server, often in another country by choice, added to the stack that your data must go through before it gets to you
Yes I’m aware. However there have been claims that the speed should not drop much on this subreddit. I haven’t found that to be true from my experience. It’s still usable but much slower
Netgate user a quadcore 2.2 ghz atom to get gigabit VPN
What cpu is in your firewall?
Yeah, speeds are especially slow if you’re connecting to a vpn far away due to latency and physical distance
TUN/TAP network interfaces are done in software and as such will always be limited, usually 200mbps up+down per connection
Having the exit node as close to you as possible helps, but other than that not much else you can do