OpenVPN Private Internet Access Slower when upgraded from 2.1.5 to 2.2

archedraft

Sweet! I am happy to hear that I am not alone! I know for sure that my CPU is not over-saturated, my pfSense has 1 core dedicated from my i7.

So now the question is what changed from 2.1.5 to 2.2?

archedraft

Is there anyone out there running pfSense 2.2 with Private Internet Access and getting download speeds higher than 40 Mbps?

AND/OR

Is there anyone out there running pfSense 2.2 with any other VPN service and getting download speeds higher than 40 Mbps?

If Yes, would you please take a screen shot of your current VPN settings and post them here to compare?

theeddie

@archedraft:

Is there anyone out there running pfSense 2.2 with Private Internet Access and getting download speeds higher than 40 Mbps?

AND/OR

Is there anyone out there running pfSense 2.2 with any other VPN service and getting download speeds higher than 40 Mbps?

If Yes, would you please take a screen shot of your current VPN settings and post them here to compare?

I am almost positive the are capping me at 40mbit on pia

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration…
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from SoftLayer Technologies (50.97.94.58)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. (Dallas, TX) [0.26 km]: 22.63 ms
Testing download speed….....................................
Download: 31.63 Mbits/s

archedraft

@theeddie:

I am almost positive the are capping me at 40mbit on pia

What version of pfSense are you running?

theeddie

2.2.2

theeddie

are you running aes 128
or blowfish? I noticed a 9% increase in speed with aes still havn't broke 40mbit

Testing download speed….....................................
Download: 33.98 Mbits/s
blow
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 36.23 Mbits/s
aes 128

someuser123

am getting 118Mbps on 105Mbps down

its been consistent.

pfsense: 2.2.2
HW: i5-8gb ram
VPN: PIA
OpenVPN: AES128

Had same results on bf-cbc and on pfsense 2.1.5 or older.
using PIA for around 2 years now.

theeddie

root@plex:~ # speedtest –source 10.0.0.23
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from Choopa, LLC (108.61.19.3)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by Atlantic Metro (New York City, NY) [39.30 km]: 76.304 ms
Testing download speed….....................................
Download: 10.07 Mbits/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 13.93 Mbits/s

I changed to east coast

archedraft

@someuser123:

am getting 118Mbps on 105Mbps down

its been consistent.

pfsense: 2.2.2
HW: i5-8gb ram
VPN: PIA
OpenVPN: AES128

Had same results on bf-cbc and on pfsense 2.1.5 or older.
using PIA for around 2 years now.

would you mind taking some screenshots of your vpn client settings? I tried to change mine from bf-cbc to all the four aes128 options but it didn't connect right. I must be missing something.

theeddie

@archedraft:

@someuser123:

am getting 118Mbps on 105Mbps down

its been consistent.

pfsense: 2.2.2
HW: i5-8gb ram
VPN: PIA
OpenVPN: AES128

Had same results on bf-cbc and on pfsense 2.1.5 or older.
using PIA for around 2 years now.

would you mind taking some screenshots of your vpn client settings? I tried to change mine from bf-cbc to all the four aes128 options but it didn't connect right. I must be missing something.

cbc is port 1194
aes is port 1196

archedraft

@theeddie:

cbc is port 1194
aes is port 1196

Well AES with port 1196 seems to work a little better but it still maxes out around 40 Mbps.

@someuser123:

am getting 118Mbps on 105Mbps down

its been consistent.

pfsense: 2.2.2
HW: i5-8gb ram
VPN: PIA
OpenVPN: AES128

Had same results on bf-cbc and on pfsense 2.1.5 or older.
using PIA for around 2 years now.

I would still really like to see a screen shot your client VPN settings, just to compare our settings.

someuser123

its pretty much basic openvpn settings

archedraft

Thanks for posting. The only different settings we had was the compression. I disabled the compression but I am still only getting 20 - 40 Mbps download. I even tried the us-east server just for fun but same results. Talked with PIA support and was told that they don't limit the download speed, but it could be due to the amount of new VPN users over the last few months. That does not explain how @someuser123 has been getting over 100 Mbps consistently and others have been below 40 Mbps… Not sure what to try next.

someuser123

You might want to try out this,
Disable openvpn (PIA client ) on pfsense. Install PIA desktop app and check the speed. If you get down speed same as ISP speed then its your pfsense 2.2.2 configuration issue, if not then its PIA.

If nothing works per your satisfaction, format and try fresh 2.2.2 setup and just configure openvpn. or revert back to 2.1.5 until next version fixes your problem.

btw what is your actual ISP download speed?

archedraft

@someuser123:

You might want to try out this,
Disable openvpn (PIA client ) on pfsense. Install PIA desktop app and check the speed. If you get down speed same as ISP speed then its your pfsense 2.2.2 configuration issue, if not then its PIA.

If nothing works per your satisfaction, format and try fresh 2.2.2 setup and just configure openvpn. or revert back to 2.1.5 until next version fixes your problem.

btw what is your actual ISP download speed?

My Actual ISP speed is 100 Mbps down. I have been testing the speed throughout the day and it's been better. This morning it was around 50 Mbps and it stayed around there for a few hours. Now I am getting around 75 Mbps… my only thought is that PIA has been experiencing a larger user base than normal and the servers cannot handle the load and maybe they just happen to be addressing the issue today? Other than that why would my server all of the sudden start getting better speeds after 3+ months of being between 30-40? It doesn't seem likely that pfSense 2.2 is the culprit or why would it get better all of the sudden...

theeddie

Im in the same boat as you archedraft please post here if you figure anything out and i will do the same

theeddie

also i forgot to add. I have since switch to the proxy server on pia and i get 180mbit to it. I am guessing the vpn is just overloaded

rclough

I had run into a similar problem. We are running 2.2.2 and had recently upgraded our bandwidth and were not able to fully utilize. Adding these settings to my OpenVPN Advanced configuration as suggested by Winaero(http://winaero.com/blog/speed-up-openvpn-and-get-faster-speed-over-its-channel/) has fixed our issue:
sndbuf 393216;rcvbuf 393216;push "sndbuf 393216";push "rcvbuf 393216";

Now our VPN users can utilize the full asymmetric bandwidth of 50Mbps.

HTH

tucansam

2.2.2 broke all things VPN for me, as well as a number of other things, so I rolled back.

I get 140-170 down, 40-50 up with my ISP and no vpn. I was getting 70+ down with PIA, now I am getting 7.82 down, 0.78 up (not a typo). Has been that way for a few days, maybe a week, have switched servers trying US and Canada servers. About to drop the service altogether as literally nothing on my config has changed (other than a fresh install of 2.2.1 and all my original config settings)

Last night through the Choopa network my ping times were 4000ms+ and I only got every 20th packet back or so. Their networks have become horribly unreliable, at least for me, as of late.

lweddin1

any news on the PIA network speeds or what could be causing the slow speeds? I did notice a 5MB increase when I added.

sndbuf 393216;
rcvbuf 393216;
push "sndbuf 393216";
push "rcvbuf 393216";