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Does EE limit VPN speed?

alfienoakes
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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?

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Hi @alfienoakes ,

 

Intel ark suggests that's a perfectly reasonable processor. It's a few generations behind but has a high clock and encryption acceleration in its favour.

 

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97123/intel-core-i5-7500-processor-6m-cache-up-...

 

Things to check including that you observe the high clock rate and boost rate as you are testing your VPN speed.

 

Online sources suggest an overhead of 10% to 15% is reasonable.

 

One source talks through things you've probably already considered but dropping the encryption level should be a good sanity check. Unfortunately their speed comparison link is broken but there seem to be other useful things on their main page.

 

https://www.vpnuniversity.com/learn/vpn-speed

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alfienoakes
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As I suspected, there is nothing wrong with my pc.

Switched provider to Now broadband, new router - can now get approx 68mbs with Norton and Windscribe and I suspect all the others.