Hiya, quickly wondering if there is a big difference between speeds when using a vpn compared to using a proxy server solution? Anyone got any experience here or good articles to refer to?

Thanks 🌻

  • NoLifeKing@ani.socialEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    From my experience it depends strongly on the up/down speed of the servers in question, VPN is more secure but a tiny bit slower, but thats so little it doesn’t really matter.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Yeah, especially if you use WireGuard on Linux, which is in the kernel and hardware accelerated. It’s efficient enough that routers can run it well.

      So unless you’re pushing hardware limits, I’d expect it to be a wash.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        Yep, just tried this today, and holy hell!

        I have older Cisco Linksys WRT160NL running DD-WRT. With OpenVPN I could get 5Mbps capped by CPU struggling at 100%. But today I tried WireGuard, and somehow even while doing 30Mbps, the CPU was just at around 25%.

      • NoLifeKing@ani.socialEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        Biggest limit for wire guard between two Linux servers is either the server hardware or the cables in between.