Hello selfhosters,
I recently moved to a new place with faster internet (320/130 Mbps) and now I see that VPN is limiting my torrent speed.
I was testing multiple AirVPN (wireguard) servers and I’m getting 80-120 Mbps on speedtest-cli, but in torrents it goes bit higher to about 180-200 Mbps. I usually use it trought gluetun container, but was also testing with eddie-cli and I get pretty much the same results.
I was reading that people get 600 Mbps and even 1+ Gbps on AirVPN. What is your experience? If this is AirVPN limit, what would you suggest as alternative with port forwarding to saturate my bandwidth? I can live with these speeds, just want to check if there is better alternative or something missconfigured on my side.
Cheers
While this is conclusively stoned as “cpu” issues, in case anyone else finds this thread…
While your isp can’t read the data over the VPN, they CAN see that you’re using a VPN and intentionally slow down your connection with traffic shaping because you’re putting so much data through the vpn.
Oh good to know
VPN limiting your bandwidth? Sounds like a CPU issue. You’ll be surprised how much CPU overhead it takes to encrypt and decrypt traffic at such high speeds.
Yeah this seems right. My CPU utilization goes to 100% during speedtest and I have celeron 😆 Thank you!
Use Wireguard instead of OpenVPN.
I am, but as others said I think my CPU cant handle it
