Private VPN upload speeds improved?

[jryans10]

Hi all,

I'm just wondering, does any of you use a VPN?
I saw a dedicated server offer for around £25 / month in the UK, purchased it and set up my own VPN server just for my home use - for security mainly because I use a lot of public Wifi's as well.

Anyway, my query is, I am on Virgin Media, and my upload speeds was capped to 10mb. Ever since connecting to my VPN it is now around 21mb.

Does anyone have any idea how my upload speed has basically doubled when connecting to my VPN?

Thanks!

 

[arad85]

VPS != VPN

 

[jryans10]

VPS != VPN

It's a Dedicated server setup with OpenVPN which I then connect to using the OpenVPN desktop client.
So obviously my IP address has changed to that of the servers. I just don't understand why my upload speed from my home network is now doubled since connecting to the VPN.

Thanks,
John.

 

[arad85]

Do you have compression enabled on the OpenVPN tunnel?

 

[jryans10]

Do you have compression enabled on the OpenVPN tunnel?

Hi,

Yes so I suppose this is what's causing it? But I don't understand, if my ISP limits my upload speed to 10mb, how can I possibly get over that just by connecting to a VPN?

Thanks
John.

 

[petersmart]

Hi,

Yes so I suppose this is what's causing it? But I don't understand, if my ISP limits my upload speed to 10mb, how can I possibly get over that just by connecting to a VPN?

Thanks
John.

Are you sure Virgin didn't simply increase the speed?

This used to happen to me when I was with them as they rolled out a faster service.

I never got a notification but suddenly my speeds would increase.

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[arad85]

Yes so I suppose this is what's causing it?

Yes. IF you can manage to connect at 10Mbps AND you have compression that is 2x as efficient, you will get 20Mbps effective. Video and audio can't be compressed though, so if you are shifting that, the max you will get is 10Mbps...

 

[jryans10]

Yes. IF you can manage to connect at 10Mbps AND you have compression that is 2x as efficient, you will get 20Mbps effective. Video and audio can't be compressed though, so if you are shifting that, the max you will get is 10Mbps...

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your explanations really appreciate it. One more question: can this 2x compression also work with download speeds?

Also nope, Virgin hasn't because when I disconnected from my private network it is 10mb, when I connect to my private network it is 21mb .

Thanks!
John.

 

[arad85]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your explanations really appreciate it. One more question: can this 2x compression also work with download speeds?

Yes. The link is compressed, so it will compress. The throughput will be totally dependent on the CPU available on both ends plus the compressibility of the data being transferred.