Use cable!!!
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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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
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
Netgate user a quadcore 2.2 ghz atom to get gigabit VPN
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What cpu is in your firewall?
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
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
Yeah, speeds are especially slow if you’re connecting to a vpn far away due to latency and physical distance