VPN Director - Asuswrt-Merlin

[RMerlin]

that wouldn't be ideal in my case, I'm getting 700+ mbits with wireguard

You're not. The fastest these Asus routers can achieve with WireGuard is around 400 Mbps, due to the fact that routing has to be done without hardware acceleration - the bottleneck becomes the router's capacity to route traffic rather than the CPU's ability to encrypt traffic. If you see 700 Mbps, then I suspect that traffic is not using the VPN.

 

[Sonyrolfy]

I second that. Having WG installed on the AX86PRO and connection speeds with AIRVPN over WG via VPN director are close to or more then 700Mbps. If Merlin is saying that’s NOT possible, then something is wrong. Hence, by checking the connection I see its connected to the vpn. If 400 Mbps is the max over WG then I hope someone with more knowledge then me can say more.

 

[MayBe]

In my case, when vpn director turned on for wg tunnel, it will affect the speed of the Wi-Fi network, not even along the route, simply loading cpu core 0, when copying a file from one device (wifi 5g client) to another (lan5) ( 50.3 and 50.5 for example)
seems like nat acceletation off globaly, then vpn director for wg is on. And max speed locked on 1Gb/s

 

[kuchkovsky]

You're not. The fastest these Asus routers can achieve with WireGuard is around 400 Mbps, due to the fact that routing has to be done without hardware acceleration - the bottleneck becomes the router's capacity to route traffic rather than the CPU's ability to encrypt traffic. If you see 700 Mbps, then I suspect that traffic is not using the VPN.

I’m getting over 700 Mbps via WG on my RT-AX88U Pro, while on the previous non-Pro AX88U I was getting only 350-400 Mbps. It doesn’t seem like it’s bypassing the VPN because I use a self-hosted VPN, and I can see this traffic flowing on my server when I’m running nload.