Thread Info
  • State Not Answered
  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 2 replies
  • Subscribers 3 subscribers
  • Views 1085 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Suggested
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Confusing speed tests with IPS & various VPN protocols

SalishSwede

This topic has been covered before a few times but I was hoping to get some help wrapping my head around what I'm seeing.

I tested 5 VPN configurations both with and without IPS turned on.
As  previously documented IPS kills basic throughput (without a VPN).

I'm puzzled, though, with the results using various VPNs.
In most instances, IPS improves throughput on downloads and not with uploads Open VPN (TCP) excepted.
This seem counter intuitive.

Also Wireguard performance is horrible through the UTM - also counter-intuitive.  Wireguard is supposed to be much faster.
The fact that Wireguard is so much slower on domestic (US) connections is simply bizarre.
Is someone taking that extra time to snoop on the connection?  [Conspiracy theory !]

Hardware is my own - generally overkill, though I don't recall what specifically it is.
CPU Utilization during tests

Can anyone think of a rationale for these results?

Thanks IA.



This thread was automatically locked due to age.
  • 0

    I switched from Wireguard via Switzerland to UDP OpenVPN via Switzerland based on these results.

  • 0

    After doing a bunch more testing, something popped out at me.
    The standard deviation of results using the local net (wifi to gigabit fiber) is very high.

    I think all of my wonky results are a function of a problem with my local network.

    Time to test some network and perhaps replace some gear.
    This thread has perhaps been a waste of your time, but certainly not mine.

    Cheers

Unfiltered HTML