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      iammike @Cool_Corona
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      @cool_corona said in Some questions please:

      @iammike

      Do yu plan to use many VPN services at any given time?

      ASUS supports OpenVPN and it doesnt fit your purpose?

      Maybe not, but am I not allowed to use the pfsense for this and must I use the Asus just because I have it?

      Just want to expand my experience/knowledge

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        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @iammike
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        @iammike said in Some questions please:

        just because I have it?

        Yes - your not allowed to switch your devices. Once you buy X, your locked in to using X forever. You can never switch brands, you can never move to more feature rich anything..

        You can never out grow this device X, and must use it now until the end of time.

        Nor can you leverage it anything else but your 1 everything box /S

        Did you not read the small print on the EULA you agreed to when you fired it up the first time? hehehe

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          iammike @johnpoz
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            iammike @johnpoz
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            @johnpoz said in Some questions please:

            @iammike said in Some questions please:

            just because I have it?

            Yes - your not allowed to switch your devices. Once you buy X, your locked in to using X forever. You can never switch brands, you can never move to more feature rich anything..

            You can never out grow this device X, and must use it now until the end of time.

            Nor can you leverage it anything else but your 1 everything box /S

            Did you not read the small print on the EULA you agreed to when you fired it up the first time? hehehe

            Maybe you should explain that to the other guy ๐Ÿ˜‰

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              iammike @iammike
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              We changed my friends local subnet to 10.95.0.0/24 and it works perfectly when connecting from my house. But the speed (for example FTP) is very slow only a max of 3Mib. (FYI: Our internet speeds are way faster than that) So that is barely enough to use Plex :๐Ÿ˜ž

              Maybe this has to do with the Openvpn that is available on the Asus as all our Nics are capable of 1Gib, so can't wait to test the Netgate 1100 ๐Ÿ˜

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                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @iammike
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                @iammike said in Some questions please:

                is very slow only a max of 3Mib.

                What are the speeds of the 2 different connections? If site A upload is X, then site B would only be able to download at X-overhead..

                Your speed is going to be limited by many factors, but you can not download faster than what it can be sent at - regardless of your servers local interface speed..

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                  iammike @johnpoz
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                  @johnpoz said in Some questions please:

                  @iammike said in Some questions please:

                  is very slow only a max of 3Mib.

                  What are the speeds of the 2 different connections? If site A upload is X, then site B would only be able to download at X-overhead..

                  Your speed is going to be limited by many factors, but you can not download faster than what it can be sent at - regardless of your servers local interface speed..

                  I understand, but my speed is (+/-) 300/300 and his speed is (+/-) 1000/500! (Both on Fiber)

                  His upload to for example Onedrive is around 42MiB

                  Edit: I am regularly downloading stuff from a friends site back in Europe and I sometimes reach speeds of 10MiB+/- (and this was before the speed increase)

                  edit2: I don't know if it helps, but this is a ping (when the vpn is active) to his router

                  Pinging 10.95.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
                  Reply from 10.95.0.1: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=64
                  Reply from 10.95.0.1: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=64
                  Reply from 10.95.0.1: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=64
                  Reply from 10.95.0.1: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=64

                  Ping statistics for 10.95.0.1:
                  Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
                  Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
                  Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 18ms, Average = 18ms

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                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @iammike
                    last edited by johnpoz

                    Well the latency is good, and if your speeds are both that high.. Then yeah something else holding it back.. While there is some overhead with vpn, it wouldn't account for such a drastic reduction.

                    What are the 2 boxes working as the vpn devices in this case - both asus routers?

                    Take the vpn out of the equation for a test. And just ftp via your normal connection.. This will take your ftp server, disk, and the like out of the equation for what could be slowing it down.

                    If you get X without vpn, and then only Y with the vpn - then yeah you know its something with the vpn.

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                      iammike @johnpoz
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                      @johnpoz said in Some questions please:

                      What are the 2 boxes working as the vpn devices in this case - both asus routers?

                      Yeah both are ASUS one is RT-AC67U and the other a RT-AC58U

                      @johnpoz said in Some questions please:

                      Take the vpn out of the equation for a test. And just ftp via your normal connection.. This will take your ftp server, disk, and the like out of the equation for what could be slowing it down.

                      If you get X without vpn, and then only Y with the vpn - then yeah you know its something with the vpn.

                      Will report back, have to test this and need some more port forwarding to do this, because all traffic is going through the VPN now.

                      Thx

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                        iammike @iammike
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                        Finally had some time to test this.

                        VPN Server via Asus - FTP download speed around 3Mib
                        NO VPN Server - Port forwarding Ftp around 5 Mib

                        Now we also tried it with a higher spec router (instead of the AC-56U we used a ASUS AC-86U) and the speed were only a bit better.

                        VPN Server via Asus - Ftp download speed +- 4 MiB
                        No VPN Server - Port forwarding FTP speed +- 7Mib

                        Now I just recently received my package from the US with the SG-1100 and going to set it up at my friends house and put the Netgate in the DMZ of his ISP Router (Non Bridged) and see what that brings us. (speed wise)

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