Use Of Vpn To Increase Your Surf Speed

[muratremix]

Hi,

First of all, I'm aware of VPN talks but this topic is not intended to bypass any blocked website but all about rerouting internet traffic via under-utilized network lines.

I use TOT 9Mbit adsl right now and here is the map of TOT IIG (International Internet Gateway) map:

http://www.totiig.net/totiig/images/Worldmap_IIG_large.jpg

TOT is way behind in terms of private peering compared to Cat, however, it does have peering (1Gbit) with Any2ix in US. Normally, I get very good ping and surf speed when I use seabone (singapore) routed line to UK (London) via TOT's direct pop in England (7.5Gbit). I just tried a US VPN and got around 250ms ping in this prime time where I get over 300ms+ ping to everywhere. Reason? It was routed trough an under-used peering link to Any2ix. You can test yourself, IP is 204.152.214.234. It belongs to quadranet.com so you can also directly ping to quadranet.com if you want.

Why I'm telling you all these? Because if you are lucky and if you can find a VPN server that is routed through these under-utilized private peerings, you can get very good speed no matter what!

204.152.214.234 belongs to ibvpn.com, their up-package $7.95 usd / month includes this server aswell. So if you are using TOT and want max. surfing speed at all times, you can use that VPN to achieve it. Their UK & IE package is $4.95 / month and their London1 server works out pretty dam_n good.

When I get my hands on True cable ultra-hi-speed internet, I will conduct same tests on True aswell. Maybe I can find a link that works out good. As far as I know True has peering with Cat and Cat has many private peerings to many locations aside their transit bandwidth.

[Satcommlee]

Good VPN speeds seem to be found in Eastern Europe, countries like Romania..

This is a tets result...

Tested using TUVPN test system using True 100 meg DOCSIS

[barryw52]

I am a little puzzled by this post as normally theVPN encryption load would slow things down as it is an overhead on throughput thatyou normally do not carry. Also a ping time has no direct relationship to throughputit indicative only. Would you please explain this technique a little moreplease?

[muratremix]

VPN Encryption doesn't use too much CPU power, if your computer is not ages old. Ping and packet loss ratio is immportant when it comes to web surf. However, I have to take my advice down against ibvpn servers. Ping is great to TOT's only private peering of Any2ix even when its network is bogged down under heavy traffic, however ibvpn's server of 204.152.214.234 performing poor due to too many users. I get great pings and no packet loss to any other location, but troughtput is like joke and unstable.

To compare, I used my own vpn in my US server in Kansas City, MO today. I got 750Kbyte/sec -- 6Mbit from a 1080p youtube video. Video went without any pause.

It seems a good idea to buy a VPN package that comes with multiple servers and locations. You can always use another server if you like. However, the idea here is to find a link from your ISP that is not over-utilized. Naturally IP transit links are first ones that traffic is most likely to be routed. IP transit costs money, private peering is free. However, you can't use private peerings internet connection as your own. But, if connection goes to VPN server trough one of these private peerings, there is a good chance that this link is under-utilized and could give better speed to you. It is like using safety lane in Highway.

[Satcommlee]

A high latency can slow things down.. Video's like You-Tube stream using UDP, but if your VPN is TCP (like PPTP) then each packet requires an acknowledgement and this can slow the speed down. TCP just wasn't designed for high latency links. UDP is "fire and forget" and does not need acknowledgement of each packet getting there.

It is best to use L2TP or OpenVPN for the fastest possible streaming.

[sulasno]

I was staying in a condo with shared access; the download speed was 3 to 4 KB/sec until I used a proxy and the speed was 33KB/sec;

now on 3BB 6MB package, the download speed average 100 KB/sec except for some sites when I can get full download speeds; the speed is reduced when I use the same proxy

[JSixpack]

Well, let's see some download/upload comparison figures.

[astral]

My line speed is 1Mb/s, but if I turn on the VPN, then DuMeter

shows a speed of almost double 1.8Mb/s

This is not related to my location, as I noticed the same change when I was in London.