loopy123 4 Posted 04/10/2017 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? Quote Share this post Link to post
Soupcan Sam Hootkins 13 Posted 04/10/2017 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. Quote Share this post Link to post
go558a83nk 365 Posted 04/10/2017 test speed another way. the test built into the web site here isn't...good. Quote Share this post Link to post
loopy123 4 Posted 04/10/2017 Tried several VPN servers but everything is < 10Mbps: Quote Share this post Link to post
go558a83nk 365 Posted 04/10/2017 On 4/10/2017 at 6:19 PM, loopy123 said: 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? Quote Share this post Link to post
loopy123 4 Posted 04/10/2017 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. Quote Share this post Link to post
go558a83nk 365 Posted 04/10/2017 On 4/10/2017 at 6:37 PM, loopy123 said: 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. 1 loopy123 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post
loopy123 4 Posted 04/10/2017 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: Quote Share this post Link to post
go558a83nk 365 Posted 04/10/2017 On 4/10/2017 at 7:09 PM, loopy123 said: 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. Quote Share this post Link to post
loopy123 4 Posted 04/10/2017 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. 1 go558a83nk reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post
Guest Posted 04/11/2017 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. 1 loopy123 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post
loopy123 4 Posted 04/11/2017 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 Quote Share this post Link to post
Guest Posted 04/11/2017 On 4/11/2017 at 1:34 PM, loopy123 said: 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-VPNHaven'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. Quote Share this post Link to post