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desert
Tutor
Jan 18, 2016
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R7000 VPN

    I have been searching for for a few weeks. I am frustrated so hopefully someone can answer this for me once and for all. If I am running a VPN (OpenVpn) with the R7000 - what kind of speeds ...
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  • TheEther's avatar
    TheEther
    Jan 20, 2016

    Yup.

desert's avatar
desert
Tutor
Jan 18, 2016

Thank you for your response.

 

I already disabled QoS. I am just trying to get a baseline of what it should be or how to improve VPN performance.

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TheEther
Guru
Jan 19, 2016

You could always try 3rd party firmware, like DD-WRT, Asuswrt-Merlin, or any of the Tomato releases.  They should all support OpenVPN server mode and, maybe, are faster than stock.

  • desert's avatar
    desert
    Tutor
    Jan 19, 2016

     

     

    I am running DD-WRT (Kong) already. I am at a loss what to do at this point.

    • TheEther's avatar
      TheEther
      Guru
      Jan 19, 2016

      What are the CPU load averages when the OpenVPN session is up and saturated with traffic?  You can see the load averages at the top right corner.

      • desert's avatar
        desert
        Tutor
        Jan 19, 2016

         

         

        I am downloading three 2GB test files at the same time. This is what I get.

         

        load average: 0.61, 0.47, 0.29
         
        edit: I have seen it hit 1.00 then drop right back down to 0.71. The first number always stays around 0.61-0.71