kamoj
Very Senior Member
Very happy to hear about your success with the latest beta!
Hope the 5.2 beta won't disappoint you.
I think it's more stable than this threads v5.0 beta,
but some things are not yet working for the R9000, hence the delayed release.
About the slow speed:
The same server address does not mean it is the same server.
Many providers have many servers for load balancing using the same address.
But if it consistently slow you might have not so good configuration.
It's a tedious job to tune for each provider.
Please send me the log and .ovpn file as PM (start a new conversation),
and I'll make a short walk-through of it.
But i's far from Toronto to Montreal so you should find a closer server!
Close server is the most important factor I've found.
Hope the 5.2 beta won't disappoint you.
I think it's more stable than this threads v5.0 beta,
but some things are not yet working for the R9000, hence the delayed release.
About the slow speed:
The same server address does not mean it is the same server.
Many providers have many servers for load balancing using the same address.
But if it consistently slow you might have not so good configuration.
It's a tedious job to tune for each provider.
Please send me the log and .ovpn file as PM (start a new conversation),
and I'll make a short walk-through of it.
But i's far from Toronto to Montreal so you should find a closer server!
Close server is the most important factor I've found.
Kamoj,
your advice was very helpful! I downloaded the 5.2-2beta, installing it as recommended (i.e., first uninstall the previous version). With a bit of fiddling about and redoing the VPN transformation of a PureVPN *.opvn file for Canada (ca2) I got it working. That is the good news. Although PureVPN says the site is in Toronto (I'm north of Toronto) it links to an OpenVPN server in Montreal. With my current router (Linksys EA8500 with most current dd-wrt firmware) and some script tuning from a base down/up connection of about 320/17 Mbps I get OpenVPN performance of 50-70/14-16 Mbps, with a ping of 16-50 ms, depending on the time of day and the test program used.
The bad news is the R7800 at this stage gets, from the same base connect rate and same Montreal server, about 30/16 Mbps with a ping of 50 or more. I tried a New York config file but the performance was even poorer. So, rather than getting about double the EA8500 throughput I'm getting about half, despite the presence of the network accelerator subsystem in the R7800. It may be a few days before I can get back to this. If there is something specific that you might wish to have tested and reported on to help to better understand what is going on and/or some suggestions regardng what "tuning" might be worth while exploring please let me know. Also, if you are interested in the successful R7800 OpenVPN logs and/or the ca2*.opvn file I can forward them to you if you have a recommended way of doing that.
Finally, the 5.2b2-2 addon appears to work well in the relatively short time I spent with it. It sure helps to navigate and extend the firmware GUI!
LSM