Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2022 12:26 Post subject: Re: What type of VPN should i use
guxunera wrote:
Hello, my hardware cpu has 900 mhz - what type of VPN connection should i use for powerfull - OpenVPN or Wireguard?
If you are not in China or India, I suggest you use wireguard to get the fastest speed.
If you are in China and India, it is recommended to use openvpn to get the stability of the link.
vpn speed is not determined by the vpn protocol it is a combination of hardware CPU type as well as speed and the bandwidth available on your internet connection. People claiming one protocol is faster than the other are engaging in theoretical religious arguments and most of the time they are arguing over usermode vs kernel mode and other claptrap which is completely based on the current open source code, not on how many CPUs are required to calculate one particular type of VPN packet vs another.
900Mhz sounds like an ARM cpu and so you have lots of CPU power plus more efficient instruction execution. You won't likely see a difference in a lab test with 2 900Mhz devices at an Internet bandwidth of, say 200Mbts between each protocols. You might likely see lower CPU utilization with a Wireguard tunnel.
You would likely see a difference if the Internet bandwidth was a gigabit. In fact both VPN types likely wouldn't even approach a gigabit.
This is why the commercial types (Cisco Firepower, Palo Alto firewalls) all throw custom encryption hardware into their products.
We are not talking about OpenVPN protocol but difference between OpenVPN and WireGuard.
Exactly! My objection was to this:
egc wrote:
If it is the highest speed you want then WirGuard is usually the best choice.
Not to this - this is good:
egc wrote:
For a lot of routers WireGuard is roughly three times faster but YMMV.
I get enough of the "remember these are dumb users keep it simple" in my day job. I like to pretend people here asking questions are at least a cut above the stupid users. Don't wreck my fantasy, please!
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2022 19:57 Post subject:
Ok, I wasn't, but I gotta. CTRL+F @900 shows only a WIP device; CTRL+F 900mhz reveals 4 other Ubiquiti devices. Let's get a little more specific on which device we're working with here.
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