OpenVPN - Working, but need help diagnosing why upload speed is 6Mb vs 35Mb

[raiderj]

I was curious if some of the latency was due to the OpenVPN server processing the workload, and whether if a more dedicated processor would speed up that encryption.

I'm certainly not hitting a performance wall, but just trying to better understand all my options. So far woth what I have all is working and I'm happy with performance.

Thanks again for all the pointers and info!

[cmb]

Compare your latency outside the tunnel (ping the remote server IP) vs. inside. The difference is likely very small. Probably ~99.99% of your 70-110 ms is the current latency on the Internet between your source and destination. Most of that's likely from the distance between the locations (or the distance it needs to travel on the Internet between the locations). With a faster CPU and better NICs you might shave a fraction of 1 ms off, but that'll have no real impact on performance.