Slow Speed on OpenWRT via OpenVPN through SSH

[skarf 0]

Hello!

I just finished setting everything up so I can connect through the SSH Tunnel via OpenVPN as the firewall here is very restrictive.

So far the connection is working great as far as the ping to the US goes.

My problem is the throughput which is no more than 1mbit on a 10mbit line.

I used the same server and method on my PC before and achived solid 10mbit through the Tunnel.

So I thought well the router is just to bad to handle it. The strange thing is that the load never exceeds 0.2

The router is a NETGEAR WNDR3700v2 running OpenWRT.

Any thought on what I can do?

Kind regards!

[Staff 9973]

Hello!

I just finished setting everything up so I can connect through the SSH Tunnel via OpenVPN as the firewall here is very restrictive.

So far the connection is working great as far as the ping to the US goes.

My problem is the throughput which is no more than 1mbit on a 10mbit line.

I used the same server and method on my PC before and achived solid 10mbit through the Tunnel.

So I thought well the router is just to bad to handle it. The strange thing is that the load never exceeds 0.2

The router is a NETGEAR WNDR3700v2 running OpenWRT.

Any thought on what I can do?

Kind regards!

Hello!

This admin is afraid there's nothing you can do. You have probably met a hardware limit: your router CPU must encrypt and decrypt in the fly all the double-encrypted throughput (AES-256-CBC for the OpenVPN Data Channel and RC4-128 for the SSL tunnel). Your router CPU is probably not enough powerful to encrypt and decrypt double-encryption/decryption with different ciphers high-throughput and the best it can do is only 1 Mbit/s.

Kind regards