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Poor VPN speeds using Private Internet Access
10-05-2013 8:14 PM
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I have the VPN configured within a Asus RT-N16 Router with Tomato firmware installed.
I normally get around 11Mbps d/l with 0.8 u/l speed.
With the VPN, I use 3 different server locations -
London
East America
Netherlands
Now, when I first configured the router, speeds were a little bit less then the above speeds. Now, it seems that the traffic is being throttled. When I connect to the London VPN, I was barely getting 0.4Mpbs download with the same upload speed. Sometimes, rebooting the router seemed to help but then the issue would come back within 24 hours.
I have also checked Astrill VPN, which gave me very similar results so it's not the VPN provider causing this issue.
I have checked my usage on the Plusnet sit which gave the following results -
Activity Allowance Overnight usage Total usage
Web 19% 1% 20%
Email 0% 0% 0%
Broadband phonecalls 0% 0% 0%
Gaming 2% 0% 2%
Streaming 49% 10% 59%
PlusNet FTP 0% 0% 0%
Peer-to-peer 0% 0% 0%
Usenet 0% 0% 0%
FTP (non PlusNet) 0% 0% 0%
Other 18% 1% 19%
Total usage so far 88% 12% 100%
I do a lot of streaming through Netflix, which makes up the majority of traffic at 59%. Normal web browsing accounts for 20% whilst under "other" there is 19% usage.
Under which category should VPN connections be under? I really need some assistance with this.
Thank you
Re: Poor VPN speeds using Private Internet Access
10-05-2013 8:57 PM
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I've just tried private internet access..
from my phone I got 11MBps down and 3 up for london
If it helped click the thumb
If it fixed it click 'This fixed my problem'
Re: Poor VPN speeds using Private Internet Access
10-05-2013 9:03 PM
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adie:quote
Re: Poor VPN speeds using Private Internet Access
10-05-2013 9:56 PM
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10-05-2013 10:15 PM
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Re: Poor VPN speeds using Private Internet Access
11-05-2013 9:23 PM
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13-05-2013 12:01 PM
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Re: Poor VPN speeds using Private Internet Access
13-05-2013 7:27 PM
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Also, what instructions should I follow and how do I send it to you?
Thanks for assisting.
dick:quote
Re: Poor VPN speeds using Private Internet Access
14-05-2013 10:19 AM
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Once you've got the caputre, you would need to ZIP this and then you can send it to us via a ticket.
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14-05-2013 7:19 PM
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15-05-2013 11:46 AM
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If I connect and use IE9 (which includes going through a proxy server), using Speedtest, I see a drop from 12.29/1.01 (D/U) to 1.36/0.79 (D/U) with a ping rate doubled to 60ms.
If I set up IE9 to bypass the proxy then I have to login to my company's Intranet, but I then see speeds back to normal 12.30/1.01 ping rate 33ms.
I wonder if this helps you at all happyhammer7?
(I'd be loathed to install wireshark on this laptop )
Re: Poor VPN speeds using Private Internet Access
15-05-2013 10:10 PM
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16-05-2013 9:06 AM
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16-05-2013 11:13 AM
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16-05-2013 11:20 AM
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Quote from: w23 No cap on current products: http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/download_speeds.shtml
Some older products did have a rate limit on VPN (I seem to recall 2Mb/s on some products for example 'Legacy Unlimited': http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/products/archive/plusnet_unlimited_archive.shtml#trafficManage...
VPN can be also limited by the speed of the connection at the other end.
@chrispurvey can you confirm that 2Mb/s cap isn't in place as per the above quote?
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