Problem Statement:

I am running an Orbi RBR50 and satellite mesh network for home wifi.

It works absolutely perfectly for a range of devices with perfectly adequate speeds - I am really happy with it.

Like everyone I am now home working, and use a work laptop with VPN to access the work network.

By VPN, I do not mean setting up VPN on the router itself. I mean I access the work vpn service.

I have had a complete software rebuild on the laptop, it is 100% stock, the build is identical to all other laptops used by all other employees.

When using the work laptop over VPN, the Orbi completely limits my upload speeds to ~1mbps.

All other devices on the wifi are getting 150 to 300 mbps, no problem at all.

If any other devices do something highly upload intensive, then it is the VPN that suffers first.

I am currently running a 15m ethernet cable around the house from the orbi to the laptop.

This resolves all issues and connectivity is perfect. (But not quite the solution I was after from a mesh network!)

It is therefore not the amount of internet that I can recieve or an ISP throttling vpn issue.

Clearly there is a conflict with the Orbi wifi setup and the secure VPN.

This is what I would like to resolve.

Having scowered the community and knowledge base as best I could, I have copied someone's configuration recommendations to:

- static ip = yes

- enable VPN service = yes

This helped, and I moved from 1mbps to say 20mbps.

But it is still rock bottom, and the VPN still takes the hit first as soon as any other device is using a moderate amount of upload capacity.

My Question:

a) Has anyone else encountered similar VPN + orbi upload throttling?

b) Does anyone have any good configuration recommendations to resolve this issue?

Or other workarounds?

The ethernet cable works.

Not ideal, but perhaps plugging another cheap standard router, that is known to play nicely with the vpn, into the back of the orbi could be an option?

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home Orbi configuration issue with VPN for work