Open VPN speed BE88u

[Denny_m]

Hello.

I am currently using an Asus Rt Ax86u and would like to swap it for an RT BE88u. The Ax86u has a permanent VPN connection for my WLAN clients. Here I get about 150 MBit via Open VPN. The new BE86u has a new 4 core 2.6 GHz CPU. Does anyone know roughly how high the VPN speed is with the BE88u?

 

[CaptainSTX]

Hello.

I am currently using an Asus Rt Ax86u and would like to swap it for an RT BE88u. The Ax86u has a permanent VPN connection for my WLAN clients. Here I get about 150 MBit via Open VPN. The new BE86u has a new 4 core 2.6 GHz CPU. Does anyone know roughly how high the VPN speed is with the BE88u?

I have an AX88 Pro four cores 2000 Mhz. With an OpenVPN client running on the router the speed I get is in the range 160-220 downloads. If you want higher speeds then you will need to run a WireGuard client on the router. Using WG my download speeds range 450-550.

 

[Tech9]

Does anyone know roughly how high the VPN speed is with the BE88u?

OpenVPN is single threaded, the CPU cores are similar type ARMv8, performance will scale proportionally with the CPU clock frequency. RT-AX86U can reach 180-200Mbps in ideal conditions, expect 250-280Mbps with RT-BE88U. OpenVPN was faster with older versions actually, but security comes before speed. I used to get 270Mbps with RT-AC86U in 384 firmware. Explore WireGuard options.

 

[RMerlin]

(Not sure why upload is so low, might be a VPN provider issue with that instance):

 

[sfx2000]

(Not sure why upload is so low, might be a VPN provider issue with that instance):

Depends on upstream - if MTU size is lower than average - let's say 1492 per PPPoE, if OpenVPN is using TCP as a transport...

Nothing new here, to be honest for OVPN...

As others mention - WG might be a better approach - on 2GHz ARMV8A Cortex-A53's - 900 Gbit/Sec perhaps is a good target...

 

[kuchkovsky]

OpenVPN speed on the RT-BE88U:

WireGuard speed on the RT-BE88U:

Choose wisely

 

[Denny_m]

Thank you very much for all the information. It helped me and confirmed my decision to buy the new BE88u.

Wireguard sounds very promising, I am currently using Hide.me as my VPN provider, but according to the support it is not yet possible to set up a Wireguard connection with an Asus router.
Do you have any information on which providers allow this?

Best regards

 

[RMerlin]

Do you have any information on which providers allow this?

I use ProtonVPN for my tests, they provide downlodable Wireguard clients. The speed was pretty good at least with the server that I use to test Wireguard, it was pushing my 1 Gbps FTTH almost to its limits.

 

[Denny_m]

OK, the Hide.me that I use also has a client for download, which means I can use my FTTH line to its full capacity. Unfortunately, I can't use that for my WLAN clients, which run via the ovpn client on my router.

 

[RMerlin]

OK, the Hide.me that I use also has a client for download, which means I can use my FTTH line to its full capacity. Unfortunately, I can't use that for my WLAN clients, which run via the ovpn client on my router.

You should be able to assign a Wireguard client to a VPN Guest Network.

 

[Denny_m]

That sounds good. Is it possible that the function is not yet available on the Ax86u? I haven't found it. According to the data sheet, it is available on the BE86u, so I will configure it there.

 

[RMerlin]

That sounds good. Is it possible that the function is not yet available on the Ax86u? I haven't found it. According to the data sheet, it is available on the BE86u, so I will configure it there.

It requires a 3.0.0.6 firmware.

 

[Denny_m]

That explains why I couldn't find it... Thank you for all the information, I will order the BE88u.

 

[Denny_m]

Hello.

I got the BE88u today and have set everything up. The only thing I can't do is connect my 2 Asus Xt8 mesh routers.

I connected the first one to the BE88u via cable using the WAN input. This works without any problems. The second one should be connected to it via WiFi and extend the signal.
It is then found, but cannot be added. But if I activate the WiFi on the BE88u, I can connect it normally. It's just that the two xt8s don't work with each other via WiFi.
Can someone please help?

I used it like that with the Ax86u and it worked without any problems.

The BE88u has the new Merlin firmware on it and the Xt8 has the latest firmware from Asus.