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Topic: Slow connection VPN wr841nd

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It's not quite clear if you mean 6-7 MByte/s or 6-7 MBit/s, which -with a factor of 8- would be quite a different, but you have to keep in mind that the tl-wr841nd (and there are multiple quite different hardware versions involved there as well) is a pretty low end device, while VPN is CPU intensive. You can't expect that much from such a low end device.

Sorry, i mean mbits!
Hardware version 7.2
I know it's not a performance monster but I don't understand why it reached higher speed sometimes!

I have the same issue with openvpn server, same device.
Even when being connected with RJ45 via WAN the bandwidth drops from several MB/s to 2-8 Mbit/s with lots of packet loss as soon as I start some form of transfer.
Tested via iperf to a server and the router itself, after aborting all other transfers.

Is OpenVPN simply too demanding for this machine?

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