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VPN speed: windows8.1 accepting incomming vs hardware VPN
Hi,
I have a Win8.1 virual machine running on a NAS and Win8.1 is accepting incoming connections(VPN). This is located at the office where I have an ISP connection 200Mbits/s down; 15Mbits/s up. At home I have a 200Mbits/s down; 10Mbits/s up.
When I do a speedtest with iperf, I get a 5,3Mbits/s connection over the VPN between the office and at home.
When I do a speedtest with iperf not over VPN but directly port to port I have a 11Mbits/s connection.
I can also make a VPN connection to a Qnap NAS, then the VPN speeds are 2,5Mbits/s
I can also make a VPN connection to a Win7 machine: 4,8Mbits/s
My question:
If I replace my WNDR4000 Netgear router with a FVS318N VPN router, will my VPN connection speed be faster?
Or is this 5Mbits/s the best I can get over VPN on a ISP 10-15Mbis/s upload??
Thx
Kevin
I've run into similar situations with speed and one of the best things you can do is set up a site-to-site connection. This way, all the vpn overhead is in the routers. I can max out our 4Mbit upload pipe where our servers are almost 600mi away using a site-to-site configuration.
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FYI
I bought a FVS318N Prosave router.
PPTP passtrue remains les then 5mbits/s
I configured the FVS318N to receive IPSec client connection with the VPN client software of Netgear.
I get 9.85Mbits/s.
So this is close to the max connection speeds, as my upload of my ISP connection is 10Mbits/s
Thx for the advice on upgrading my router.
Kevin
Hi KevinCloch,
Congratulations! Hope you're happy on your our newly bought NETGEAR ProSafe VPN router. If you have any questions, just create a new topic or discussion.
"Teamwork makes the DREAM WORK"
Kind regards,
BrianL
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