New to VPN's

[macwill17]

I have finally subscribed to IPVANISH. I only have 3 out of 6 devices connected. my main PC, WIN 10 home based 64 bit, with 16gb DDR3 kingston Hyper x fury, AMD fx 8 core 4ghz, with 750psu, Ge-force GTX 1050 TI SSC 4gb gpu, all on a MSI 970 gaming MOBO runs slower that a slug strolling on a salt hill in a rainstorm when Im connected to the VPN.
I have tried changing my access from the closest to the furthest servers, depending on how congested they are. I have toggled from openVPNTCP or openvpn udp to L2TP to PPTP. The pptp runs faster, but I was informed that its not as secure. I have my selected server as the closet choosing the faster server. Are there other settings that I can use to help me with making my speeds a bit higher than 15-20mbps as I currently have 100+ speeds from Spectrum? Also, should
I have the IPVANISH running through my gateway rather than each PC? Im new to VPN.

 

[bill001g]

If you are running it on your router it could be you are killing the cpu on the router. VPN is extremely cpu intensive especially openvpn.

I am not sure if ipvanish has a speedtest. You can try this one from PIA.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/network/

I don't think it is a actual vpn connection since it appears to be browser based but it should give you some idea on maximum throughput. The amount of data you can get varies a lot from data center to data center. It also varies by time of day which means you have lots of people competing for bandwidth at the vpn data center.

I know on most vpn services I get much higher numbers using a actual PC running a linux vpn router rather than using a consumer router.

 

[svalbaard]

Which model router are you running it on and what is your current broadband bandwidth? Generally (and depending on VPN provider) I have found that the encryption/decryption overhead is about 2/5 of original bandwidth.

 

[macwill17]

My router is Arris, provided by Spectrum, or TWC.