<![CDATA[Poor performance on vultr.com virtual pfSense Router as OpenVpn Server]]>I have a pfSense virtual router up-and-running on vultr.com.  I'm planning to use it to access my mobile LAN which never has a public IP.  By connecting my LAN's router running an OpenVPN client to the virtual pfSense router (which does have a public IP) running an OpenVPN server, I can port forward from the virtual router to my LAN.  All that appears to be fine.

My issue is that the performance I'm getting is less than 10% the speed of my usual Internet connection.  5-6Mbps vs. 60-65Mbps on the download – and I actually had to do some tweaking to get there, since I started with speeds less than 1Mbps.  I followed the 2 recommendations in this link, which got me to where I am now.  I contacted vultr support and they had nothing additional to offer.

https://discuss.vultr.com/discussion/979/freebsd-vtnet0-tuning

Here's my redacted OpenVPN client file :

dev tun
persist-tun
persist-key
cipher AES-128-CBC
auth SHA1
tls-client
client
resolv-retry infinite
remote [IP Removed] 1194 udp
verify-x509-name "OpenVPN Server" name
auth-user-pass
remote-cert-tls server

 <ca>-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
[Certificate Removed]
-----END CERTIFICATE-----</ca> 
 <cert>-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
[Certificate Removed]
-----END CERTIFICATE-----</cert> 
 <key>-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
[Key Removed]
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----</key> 
 <tls-auth>#
# 2048 bit OpenVPN static key
#
-----BEGIN OpenVPN Static key V1-----
[Key Removed]
-----END OpenVPN Static key V1-----</tls-auth> 
key-direction 1
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