I’m looking for a VPN router that supports decent speeds. My internet is through my apartment and I don’t want them to be able to spy on my data. I have a roommate and we both game so I am looking for a router that supports decent speeds, 250Mbps+ or 100Mbps at the very least. Tried two different routers and both max out at ~50Mbps. I am using OpenVPN protocol and have tried two VPN providers but still hit this roadblock. Any recommendations?
Could use pfsense (or alike), fortigate, PA, etc.
Pfsense would be the cheaper option but make sure you chose hardware that has good single core performance if you’re sticking to OpenVPN but I’d rather choose WireGuard or IPsec
Lots of how-to articles for all of them but I’m sure there’s a turn key solution out there
GL.inet Slate AX. Try a provider with wireguard so you can get even better speeds.
The keyword you are looking for when googling is AES-NI support. If the device doesn’t support that then you are going to run into the issues you stated.
PFSense works well but again thats mostly because its a virtual machine that runs on consumer CPUs which have the AES-NI instruction set.
So, a question. Are you reporting wired speeds or WiFi? WiFi adds a degree complexity to the problem. Certainly VPN affects speed and you may wish to try WireGuard protocol, too.
I used a 10 year old computer with 2 Cores, 4 GB RAM, 120 GB SSD, 2x 1Gb NICs. Installed pfSense, setup 6 VPN connections as a load balanced gateway and was able to get 7-900 Mbit connections most of the time when using P2P software.
I’ve tested 15-20 consumer routers, and not a single one was able to give any worth while performance compared to the one i built myself.
I’d look for an older m-ITX board on eBay, preferably with a CPU supporting AES-NI and build a small router myself. Will cost a lot less than anything with the similar performance.
Always run cabled network if possible, will make a difference for sure.
There are several tutorials for setting up a pfSense yourself, and a few ones that also explain how to setup a load balanced gateway on it.
Specced at 550 Mbps wireguard and 120 Mbps OpenVPN. I have one of these and it’s a beast of a travel router. Definitely saw 400Mbps+ wireguard performance with my own eyes.