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Vpn download speed a bit slower than expected

fidesachates

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Hi all,

I recently purchased and set up pfsense on this little beauty: GB-BSi3HAL-6100. It's currently sitting between my asus rt-n66u mode which I just put into AP mode and my modem and it's acting as my router. I just got pfsense working and had setup the openvpn client to connect to an openvpn server I have set up on aws.

My test speeds on a wired connection are:
27-50 Mbps / 50-70 Mbps

When the vpn is off, on the same connection I get:
100 Mbps / 90 Mbps.

I checked on the cpu usage on both my new router box and the aws box and the user + system cpu usage never goes above 7% collectively. What do you think is the bottle neck? I would really appreciate some pointers in the right direction. Thanks!
 
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Oddly enough this morning I got speeds of 90/90, 90/80, 90/60. No changes and no explanation on why the improvement. I suppose AWS just has some variances? I'm running it on the t2.micro instances which were made for burst cpu usage.
 

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