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With ProtonVPN I've been able to hit 500-1000Mb/s easily on a regular basis. Perhaps your internet provider are blocking / throttling you?
by citilife 7y ago
With ProtonVPN I've been able to hit 500-1000Mb/s easily on a regular basis.
Perhaps your internet provider are blocking / throttling you?
- Youden 7y agoThe internet is a complicated beast. When ISPs connect to each other (e.g. Proton VPN to Comcast), they can't always directly reach each other so they have to go through intermediate networks to make it work. Sometimes there's congestion in those networks or a faulty switch or any number of things. ISPs that allow VPN providers tend to be some of the worst ISPs around (i.e. they're able to reach very little of the internet themselves), so when you see bad performance it's quite possible for it to be the VPN's ISP that's the problem, rather than your ISP. For example I have FTTH from a great ISP. Not only do they have one of the most extensive networks available in my country but they've also been happy to add direct peering to providers that I've asked for in the past. I'm easily able to saturate my gigabit connection to most of the world, even across the Atlantic. When I tried to connect to a VPN server in a city ~5km away resulted in a path traversing 3 different countries and about 5 different networks, resulting in pretty abysmal bandwidth and latency.
- LegitShady 7y agoOn other Vpns I can max out my 300mbit linen. On proton I can get about 50mbit. Functional but wastes 5/6ths of my capabilities.