Looking for FAST VPN/Don't need Encryption

[getochkn]

I don't care about encryption, just redirecting my location from Canada to the US. Seems most VPN's though focus on encryption and that brings my router to it's knee's and my 100mb/s connection becomes 20mb/s on a VPN with the couple that I've tried. Any fast ones that basically just tunnel you without all the encryption overhead.

We have over 40 devices in our house, so a per device config isn't wanted. i want to config my router and everything goes through the VPN.

 

[bill001g]

I don't know any that do not encrypt the traffic. You would have to find one that runs something like GRE or L2TP (without IPSEC). You could try to use IPSEC it tends to not use as much cpu as sslvpn does sometimes. You can also get routers with hardware assisted IPSEC encryption chips.

You also need to be sure if you use openvpn (ie sslvpn) you are not running it in the standard TCP mode and force it to use UDP instead. When you run with TCP the latency to the VPN data center has more negative affect than other transport methods.

Still bottom line on any of this is CPU power, the more you have the more data you can push though. Even without encryption you have the issue of putting new ip headers in every packet. You also have the issues of packet fragmentation and reassembly that occurs when there is no room for the extra headers. You could try to set the MTU to say 1300 to see if it helps at all.

 

[getochkn]

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ will let you disable the encryption I found. My router, as is most, is too slow to run it for my whole house, but you get 5 connections so I can setup the main PC's I want anyways.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4675636807 WITH VPN

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4675639966 WITHOUT VPN


If I run it through my router, I get about 30mb/s tops. Routers just can't handle the processing needed, encryption or not.

Pretty close and good enough for me.

As for anyone else who finds this thread, routers aren't fast enough if you have a really fast internet connection for a VPN.

 

[jsmithepa]

Huh, I wouldn't think encryption takes that much juice.

Is gonna be tough finding something. VPN was not designed for the purpose you want to use it for. Encryption is where the PRIVATE came from, not Virtual Public Network.