Purchasing RT-AX86U AX5700 Router would help to increase VPN speed ?

[L&LD]

@zillah, there is no doubt that the RT-AX86U is the preferred router today.

(Out of all RMerlin powered Asus routers I've used, including the ones you mention above).

 

[zillah]

there is no doubt that the RT-AX86U is the preferred router today

Thx for that

 

[Sky1111]

I have an AC86 that I run two clients on. Using either PIA or Strong my speeds are typically in the 140 - 180 Mbps range. With earlier versions of Merlin's firmware I used to see speeds in excess of 200 Mbps while using PIA.

Most of the limitation is from the fact that the processor in a consumer router is limited. Bandwidth constraints from your VPN provider can result from how many connections to each server, the processing power of each server as well as how big of a pipe to the WWW the provider has. Distance from the server also impacts speeds.

Hi Captain,
would you share how do you get 140-180 with PIA? I never saw more than 120, and this is on 1Gbps connection.
P.S. with 363_3.2 it is now around 70...

 

[CaptainSTX]

STRONG VPN
Speedtest result for VPNC1

Bandwidth - Download: 146.04 Mbps (data used: 164.4 MB) - Upload: 26.12 Mbps (data used: 28.4 MB)
Quality - Latency: 15.28 ms (1.07 ms jitter) - Packet Loss: 0.0%


STRONG VPN

Speedtest result for VPNC3

Bandwidth - Download: 145.52 Mbps (data used: 161.4 MB) - Upload: 26.47 Mbps (data used: 28.5 MB)
Quality - Latency: 19.53 ms (2.00 ms jitter) - Packet Loss: 0.0%



PIA
Speedtest result for VPNC5

Bandwidth - Download: 105.06 Mbps (data used: 125.9 MB) - Upload: 24.57 Mbps (data used: 28.5 MB)
Quality - Latency: 17.10 ms (58.00 ms jitter) - Packet Loss: 0.0%


My speed from my ISP is slower than normal this morning so I only got 105 Mbps. I switched to primarily using StrongVPN as they seem to give me consistently higher speeds. The settings I used for PIA are attached.