Does EE limit VPN speed?

[alfienoakes]

Hello, I have fibre at home, windows 10 PC, currently getting 70-75 mbps.

I signed up to Norton 360 VPN - with VPN turned on I only get 36-38 mbps.

I'm waiting for their customer support to get back to me.

Just tried a trial of Avast VPN - getting the same 36-38 mbps.

I am expecting some slowdown using a VPN but this seems excessive.
Is there anything anyone can suggest?

[pip11]

EE do not limit VPN speeds.

[alfienoakes]

I guess what I'm asking is whether there any EE customers that use a VPN with a smaller slowdown? A 50% reduction is crazy.

[Christopher_B]

Hi @alfienoakes

I hope you're well and having a nice day, are you up to much or just having a chilled one?

You will always see a loss in speed when connecting to any VPN, this is due to software having to encrypt every packet of data.

I would suggest trying a few different VPN services as speeds can very with each one.

Thanks 

Chris

[alfienoakes]

Thanks Chris
I know about the speed reduction but can't cope with a 50% reduction.
Before I try them all I was hoping someone might help with a good one they'd found.

[pip11]

I have no problems with Windscribe. You can download a free version to try it first.

[alfienoakes]

thanks. i'll give it a go

[alfienoakes]

Results so far

Norton 36

Avast 39

Tunnelbear 44

Windscribe 53

Still not great, may try others soon

[mikeliuk]

Hi @alfienoakes ,

Depending on how modern and capable your processor is, it's possible that the bottleneck may be your processor.

You can judge this by taking a look at processor load in taskman. Modern processors will have encryption offloading to ensure that is not the bottleneck.

VPN service providers may give guidance on what hardware to use to minimize the overhead and various types of VPN technologies are known to perform better. For example, I believe wireguard and ipsec might be preferable over OpenVPN. Good luck!

[alfienoakes]

Thanks Mike,

My processor is Core i5-7500 3.4 ghz, 16GB ram reasoable specs I think.

I just tried Malwarebyes vpn and got 41. Probably try expressvpn next.

My usual speed is 70.

What I don't know is what speed I can reasonably expect to get with a VPN?