The VPN connection will have slower speed. Encryption/decryption is cpu intensive and the BT doesn't have a powerful cpu.
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In my case, the problem not about the VPN that have slower speed (something I expected). The problem is that two computers have different speed! Both are under VPN (Wireguard).
These two computers are both connected via LAN and even if I turn off the Windows 10 one, the Ubuntu one is slower in speedtest, than the Windows 10 one.
So both are connecting to the LAN ports of the BT but have different results in speedtest?
If so check the cables in case there is some problem with them. Try different ports on the BT as well.
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Thanks a lot! I will try later.
Take a look at these two pictures:
- the one with highest speed is the Windows 10 pc, the other one is Ubuntu. Both pc are connected via LAN to BT. Different IPs!
What WAN IP addresses are reported by both computers when you use myip.com ? If they are different, who owns them? eg. Mulvad vpn partner.
It is normal practise of speedtest.net to assign a randomly chosen server, although to offer servers in different countries is very unusual.
Have you tried manually selecting the same speedtest.net server on both computers?
eg. Change Server > Amsterdam > 31173 Services AB.
(Testing without VPN, the Frankfurt server is definitely slower than Amsterdam server from my UK location)
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I fixed it.
On Ubuntu pc, I tried first Openvpn for Ubuntu. Even if I first disabled and then removed VPN profile in Ubuntu, it still runs files stored in /etc/openvpn, so the ubuntu pc was running Openvpn profile, located in DE. That's why I had two different IPs!
I've tried several different peers and the speed in download is always 35Mbps. I believe it's a limit of the BT, but it's not that bad.
@bill888 in your guide, you have reached around 50Mbps. Do you believe it's a peer "problem", or 35Mbps is almost the maximum that BT can reach?
I think you misread the guide. I probably meant to say upto 40mb wireguard speed, on my 55mb ISP connection using HH5A.
(btw, BT is name of UK telecom provider, not the model of the router, known as HomeHub 5A or HH5A)
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Oh, ok. Sorry, I obviously misread the guide!
My ISP connection speed is 100Mb (speedtests say 97mbps in download).
What Openwrt router can do the work better than HH5A?
if you want faster wireguard speed, you probably need a router with a better processor:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/wireguard/wireguard_performance
eg. Linksys EA6350 v3/EA8300 (Qualcomm ipq4018/ipq4019), Asus RT-AC57U v1/Netgear R6220 (Mediatek MT7621) etc. All have issues, mainly with wifi, which may or may not affect your devices.
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Can this one be an alternative for the two you listed? https://openwrt.org/toh/xiaomi/xiaomi_mi_router_ac2100
It seems to have similar technical specific. It's hard to find in Italy the two you listed.
Only snapshot version of openwrt available for mi ac2100. (ie. wait for openwrt 20 for stable release)
You'll have to read through the thread to decide if it is what you want.
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/new-xiaomi-router-ac2100/48101
Word of warning. There is the Mi AC2100 and Redmi AC2100.
Similarly, snapshot also available for Xiaomi AC1200 4A/3Gv2 gigabit router.
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/xiaomi-mi-router-4a-gigabit-edition-r4ag-r4a-gigabit-fully-supported-and-flashable-with-openwrtinvasion/36685
Snapshots are moving/using linux 5 kernel, and there are problems.
19.07.x uses kernel 4.14.
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Ok, thanks a lot!
I was talking about Xiaomi AC2100 (the "black trash bin" one!) that seems to be easy to find here in Italy.
I'm looking for the two other routers you suggested before, but at the moment there aren't a lot here in Italy.
Just to know: this one https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ac51u could be better than BT (except for the 100M LAN)?
EDIT: nevermind, I've seen that AC51U has single core CPU.
I have a reply via mail that doesn't appear here.
Ok, 37€ isn't that expensive for a R6220, right?