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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 19, 2016

 

I did it again - used an online timer. This is after five minutes. 

 

19:43:50 up 3:11, load average: 0.73, 0.70, 0.59

TheEther's avatar
TheEther
Guru
Jan 19, 2016

Well, you're not CPU-bound.  Could it be the client?

  • desert's avatar
    desert
    Tutor
    Jan 19, 2016

     

     

    You're speaking of the VPN company? (PIA)

     

    I have tried on two different computers - ethernet.

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    TheEther
    Guru
    Jan 19, 2016

    Have you tried a speed test to their network?  Check out their Knowledge Base article (link).

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    desert
    Tutor
    Jan 19, 2016

     

     

    Yes, I talked with support last month. We went back and forth about twenty emails including the MTU tests and pings. I tested to all servers then and a few right now. It's the same results. I get about 100Mpbs down without the VPN to the closest server to me they have. Then with the VPN I get about 20-25.

     

    They blame this on throttling by TWC. I talked to about ten people at TWC. I have spoken to several Tier-3 people who said they are not throttling anything. Everyone is pointing fingers on this. It's frustrating.