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    Super Slow Download Speed with pfSense in AWS (using AWS Marketplace Image)

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      awang35
      last edited by awang35

      Hi Everyone,

      I have stood up a pfsense as our vpn concentration for our AWS env with almost all default settings. No traffic shaper enabled...so I'm kinda at a lost.

      From new AWS vpn:

      Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
      Testing from Amazon.com (3.208.38.204)...
      Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
      Selecting best server based on ping...
      Hosted by Shentel Service Company (Ashburn, VA) [0.98 km]: 214.422 ms
      Testing download speed................................................................................
      Download: 2.53 Mbit/s
      Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
      Upload: 16.83 Mbit/s
      

      From cyberverse vpn (datacenter):

      Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
      Testing from Evocative (209.151.249.120)...
      Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
      Selecting best server based on ping...
      Hosted by Bel Air Internet LLC (Los Angeles, CA) [22.59 km]: 38.535 ms
      Testing download speed................................................................................
      Download: 17.31 Mbit/s
      Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
      Upload: 10.13 Mbit/s
      

      (From the spectrum connection I’m on in Santa Ana with no VPN):

      Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
      Testing from Spectrum (23.242.57.248)...
      Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
      Selecting best server based on ping...
      Hosted by C3Network.Inc (Diamond Bar, CA) [31.83 km]: 19.984 ms
      Testing download speed................................................................................
      Download: 65.30 Mbit/s
      Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
      Upload: 9.00 Mbit/s
      

      On the pfsense box with fetch

      [2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@vpn.corp.40i.fi]/root: fetch -o /dev/null http://download.thinkbroadband.com/100MB.zip
      /dev/null                                     100% of  100 MB 8856 kBps 00m12s
      [2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@vpn.corp.40i.fi]/root: 
       
      

      Also to add, this is openvpn over tcp. If I switch over to using UDP ipv4 only
      I get a slightly better connection

      speedtest-cli   
      Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
      Testing from Amazon.com (3.208.38.204)...
      Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
      Selecting best server based on ping...
      Hosted by Windstream (Ashburn, VA) [0.98 km]: 83.57 ms
      Testing download speed................................................................................
      Download: 14.95 Mbit/s
      Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
      Upload: 29.06 Mbit/s
      
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