What is your fastest connection to PIA?

TamazakiAkaneTamazakiAkane
edited January 2017 in VPN Setup Support

  • OpenVPN 2.4 Client
  • AES-128 UDP
  • Native ISP speed ~225 Mbps
  • PIA (us-siliconvalley) server

  • ~123 Mbps = Intel I5-3570K overclocked to 4.2Ghz 
  • ~78 Mbps = Intel I3-4130T 2.9Ghz
  • ~11 Mbps = Nexus 6P Android Phone
  • ~7 Mbps = Portable Router (not sure what cpu, prob ARM SOC)

OpenVPN currently only supports single threaded processing so it can't take advantage of multi-core CPUs. It's speed is inherently bounded to how fast the CPU IPC is. Notice how my VPN connection speed are different depending on the hardware it was tested under. There are other variables that affect VPN speed such as quality of the native ISP connection and the PIA server load itself etc. Using AES-256 pia strong encryption config will lower speeds too about 20-30%.

What is your fastest speeds obtained connecting to PIA?
Anyone able to reach 200 Mbps?
What hardware are you using?

Comments

  • jbrown0jbrown0
    currently Dloading two torrents at 1.0 MiB/s (varies a bit) on ADSL 2+ Melb Aust server - best speeds I've had for quite a while for torrents ( other than Linux distros) - I'm using qbittorrent V3.3.10 on Linux Mint 17.3 with all updates.

    torrents have 6 seeders/40 peers and 7 seeders/30 peers.

    These downloads are exceptional compared to sppeds since last Nov.
  • sorr535771sorr535771
    see this video, the cpu is a i7 4770k at 4.4Ghz


  • jtcgiants56jtcgiants56
    edited January 2017
    Wow, I had no idea that VPN speeds were directly tied to CPU usage. I was wondering why my VPN speeds were drastically reduced, while I was simultaneously installing a VM in virtualbox, which was using most of my CPU resources. 

    My normal connection is 115/35. In PIA I've achieved 112/35. Download connection is much more spotty now and I never know if I'm going to get those speeds or 50/35.

    CPU is only an i7-930.
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