[SOLVED] Slow PIA VPN connection on pfsense 2.4b
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Don't have time to read all right now but change WAN net to LAN net on your gateway group rule in the first screen shot.
I'll try to check out rest later. -
Don't have time to read all right now but change WAN net to LAN net on your gateway group rule in the first screen shot.
I'll try to check out rest later.Will do.
No problem. Thank you for taking your time to help, its very appreciated. :)
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After setting it to LAN net and switching one VPN clints server (apparently the closest one to me is congested), I'm now running at full speed 106mbitBut again I'm seeing less CPU usage than running with with a single VPN.
I found this guide https://nguvu.org/pfsense/pfsense-multi-vpn-wan/
Is it any good?
He's doing a lot of things I haven't done fx. the way he set up the FW rules to block and log all IP traffic.
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Tried pinging a few websites to test my latency and found that 99% of the time the first ping fails and then the rest comes through and if I then ping the same page again they all go through.
It fits with how every homepage I open hangs for 2-12 seconds and then loads.
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Delete the second allow any rule on your LAN to any Gateway
Delete all rules on PIAVPN1&2 interfaces
Then repost your rules.
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Delete the second allow any rule on your LAN to any Gateway
Delete all rules on PIAVPN1&2 interfaces
Then repost your rules.
There you go.
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On your LAN & WLAN, if oyu want all of your traffic to go through the Gatewat group, you need to specify the gateway group as the only gateway.
The way those are written, nothing will go out of your gateway group except your OpenVPN server.
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On your LAN & WLAN, if oyu want all of your traffic to go through the Gatewat group, you need to specify the gateway group as the only gateway.
The way those are written, nothing will go out of your gateway group except your OpenVPN server.
Ok, I thought that was fine as the NAT i specified was the OpenVPN.
but I've changed it now.
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Just to clarify, what I've change is what you said. haven't changed anything in NAT rules.download speed is on pair with running over my pc client now, but latencies are still high.
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OK, great! Can you get full speed with just one VPN client now that your rules are set up correctly? Try just changing one of the VPNs in the gateway group to never.
High latency is a fact of life when you are routing all of your traffic via a VPN.
To pick the best VPN server for you check out this list. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/network/
Closer is generally better latency but not always.
I would expand out from your closest server and test them out on pfSense to see which one is the best for you.
Also, VPN servers performance will vary over time. If there are a lot of users on it you will notice. So, when using a gateway group, it is probably to your advantage to pick the two best servers for you, and put one of them in each of your clients so that if one network goes down or gets shitty. You will seamlessly be using a different server. This is what gateway grouping is usually used for.
The OpenVPN gateway group is just a hack to get around the fact that OpenVPN is single threaded.
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I got full speed again with one VPN set to never (see picture bellow)
But it seems that pfsense ignored it completely and still used both VPN's
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Sorry, set your gateway group back to the way you had it, just change the LAN firewall rule from your gateway group to one of your VPN clients and try again.
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Sorry, set your gateway group back to the way you had it, just change the LAN firewall rule from your gateway group to one of your VPN clients and try again.
Not quite, I would say its the same as before bandwidth wise, running with only one VPN.. Also it seems that pfsense refrains from using my VPN2 connection at in the beginning as the monitor reported no bw. but somehow it kicks in midway in the Ubuntu download and starts using it anyway..
The picture dosn't show the beginning of the download, but the VPN2 connection was completely dead, nothing was going in or out.
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You mean it's still using the other VPN connection even when you change the firewall rule to one VPN insteadof the gateway group? You might need to reset the state table (diagnostics/states) and restart the VPN service (Status/OpenVPN).
Have you tried trouble shooting different VPN servers? Try some that have a lot of throughput even if they are far away from you.
us-east.privateinternetaccess.com
us-texas.privateinternetaccess.com
us-california.privateinternetaccess.com
uk-london.privateinternetaccess.comIt is really strange that you can't hit line speeds on a single instance.
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You mean it's still using the other VPN connection even when you change the firewall rule to one VPN insteadof the gateway group? You might need to reset the state table (diagnostics/states) and restart the VPN service (Status/OpenVPN).
Yup! but only in the end of the download.
Have you tried trouble shooting different VPN servers? Try some that have a lot of throughput even if they are far away from you.
us-east.privateinternetaccess.com
us-texas.privateinternetaccess.com
us-california.privateinternetaccess.com
uk-london.privateinternetaccess.comIt is really strange that you can't hit line speeds on a single instance.
No not yet, but I'm currently using the NL server, which has the highest throughput in Europe and also always have worked flawlessly on my pc client. I can however of course try the others.
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weird, easiest thing is just ot reboot the whole router and try again.
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weird, easiest thing is just ot reboot the whole router and try again.
Tried, almost the same result.
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Try disabling the other VPN client
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Try disabling the other VPN client
Close but no cigar.
and I'm leaking my ISP IP DNS
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So everything is working except you have a DNS leak?
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So everything is working except you have a DNS leak?
Yes when running with one VPN server shut down.
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can you post your gateway groups, firewall rules, and nat rules please?
As mentioned before, your latency increasing will be a tradeoff and the only thing you can try to bring it down is other VPN servers.
DNS leaking is usually because you have your DNS being run by PFSense. PFSense in resolver mode will leak your WAN address unless you change your default gateway to the PIA VPN. PFSense set to forward will leak your upstream DNS servers (such as google or open dns if youre using those) regardless of default gateway configuration, unless youre forwarding to another internal DNS server and that server is being routed over the VPN.