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Getting fast internet speeds on vpn? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by ConsiderationHour710@alien.top to c/digitalnomad@expats.zone

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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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[–] LifeEnginer@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Use cable!!!

[–] not_a_total_dick@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ConsiderationHour710@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Abyssal_Truth@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Which protocol are you using? OpenVPN or Wireguard? Wireguard is a lot faster.

[–] ConsiderationHour710@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Wireguard. I’ve also tried openvpn on a corporate network and found it was a bit faster but still large dropoffs in speed

[–] zrgardne@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Netgate user a quadcore 2.2 ghz atom to get gigabit VPN

https://shop.netgate.com/products/6100-base-pfsense?_gl=1jpbv1g_gaMTU5ODY2MDUzOC4xNzAxMTMzNTQ0_ga_TM99KBGXCB*MTcwMTEzMzU0My4xLjEuMTcwMTEzMzU5Mi4xMS4wLjA.

What cpu is in your firewall?

[–] the_vikm@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you measured speed when you were still there locally?

Also lots of hops in-between the endpoints will likely degrade your throughput.

[–] ConsiderationHour710@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have yes it was near gigabyte speeds

[–] the_vikm@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I might've been clear. I meant like the actual VPN connection but tested locally

[–] NoStructure371@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Viktri1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, speeds are especially slow if you’re connecting to a vpn far away due to latency and physical distance