My internet slows down when connected to the VPN. Additionally, I experience higher latency and reduced download/upload speeds, which affects my overall browsing and work performance.
The performance of the VPN connection is mostly determined by the CPU speed of both the server and client. In some cases the ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption cipher may provide better performance, this option is in the server settings.
Hi @zach
Thank you for your reply. For the CPU utilization its below threshold. May I know where I can check this ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption
It’s in the advanced server settings labeled Encryption Cipher.
Test both AES-128 and ChaCha20-Poly1305 if both are still slow it is likely the server CPU. The single core/thread performance of the CPU has the biggest impact on connection speed.
Server specs 2 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs, 60 GB SSD
routing everything through your VPN will always be slow. Set up a split tunnel so that only your VPN traffic goes through your VPN and your general internet browsing goes out your WAN connection. We had to edit the OVPN file on the local machine/device for this to work properly so that the client would ignore some settings given by the server and force it to use the WAN for general WAN traffic.
Hi @peter_forrest Could you please let me know how to achieve that?
where exactly are you getting stuck?
We already upgraded the server to latest version but still it’s slow. I want to achieve the recommednation you have