New to AIrVPN, my speeds are ~ 4Mbps in VPN, but > 100Mbps outside

[loopy123 4]

Down: 4.288 Mbit/s Out, 5.025 Mbit/s In (117%), 20MB - Up: 4.203 Mbit/s Out, 3.474 Mbit/s In (82%), 10MB - Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:00:20 GMT - Buffers: 20MB/10MB - Laps: 3, Time: 244.67 secs

 

This is much slower than when off my tomato router based VPN connection to AirVPN - is there a problem here?

 

 

[Soupcan Sam Hootkins 13]

Try different servers and protocols. Also, do you use any security software such as Kaspersky? There is a known bug with Kaspersky that is affecting VPN's. 

[go558a83nk 362]

test speed another way.  the test built into the web site here isn't...good. 

[loopy123 4]

Tried several VPN servers but everything is < 10Mbps:

 

 

 

[go558a83nk 362]

Tried several VPN servers but everything is < 10Mbps:

 

 

 

 

 

 

What ports and protocols have you tried?  If I understand correctly you're running the openvpn client on a router.  What router is it?

[loopy123 4]

Using port 443, UDP on an ASUS RT-N66U running Tomato (by shibby  Firmware 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-132 K26 USB AIO-64K).

 

This should be the fastest protocol and it is unclear why a different port would be better.

[go558a83nk 362]

Using port 443, UDP on an ASUS RT-N66U running Tomato (by shibby  Firmware 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-132 K26 USB AIO-64K).

 

This should be the fastest protocol and it is unclear why a different port would be better.

 

Some ports and protocols are faster because the ISP and transit/peers allow it to be.

 

But, your problem is the router running VPN.  That's a very weak CPU for trying to run openvpn.  That speeds you're getting are the most you'll get so long as that router is your openvpn client.

[loopy123 4]

OK,  thanks for the help.  I tried using the pc openvpn client to test speeds and got only slightly better results over a couple of servers, including: 

[go558a83nk 362]

OK,  thanks for the help.  I tried using the pc openvpn client to test speeds and got only slightly better results over a couple of servers, including: 

 

if on the PC use the Eddie (AirVPN) software and try different ports and protocols.

[loopy123 4]

Using Eddie - what a huge difference:

 

 

Using the .ovpn file in the openvpn pc client:

 

 

and the bad news for me - when running the same param from the .ovpn config file on openvpn router (ASUS RT-N66U) client:

 

Thanks for the help.  Not sure why it was so bad at my post #8 above when running the PC openvpn client, maybe missing the rcvbuf and sendbuf params.

[Guest]

It's your router. It doesn't have the required processing power to do 100mbps. Nothing you can do than either use eddie or get a router that can handle such speeds. They are not cheap so if you have an old computer setting that up to distribute the vpn connection is probably a better idea. 

[loopy123 4]

Thanks for guiding me to my router hardware limitation on bandwidth.  

 

I am thinking that offloading the vpn to a virtual machine and route my traffic to it such as here:

 

https://support.hidemyass.com/hc/en-us/articles/202721486-Using-Linux-Virtual-Machine-instead-of-a-router-for-VPN

[Guest]

Thanks for guiding me to my router hardware limitation on bandwidth.  

 

I am thinking that offloading the vpn to a virtual machine and route my traffic to it such as here:

 

https://support.hidemyass.com/hc/en-us/articles/202721486-Using-Linux-Virtual-Machine-instead-of-a-router-for-VPN

Haven't tried it so i can't comment but i would still try and find an older pc none uses for really really cheap and use that. A vm will use resources on your pc and restarting the specific pc means internet will go down for all.