I’m having speed issues with torrenting through VPN. I understand that I would sacrifice a bit of a performance hit with VPN use and that it would differ between VPN companies, but I’m getting about 1/10th of the speed (I’d think about 50% dropoff would be reasonable). I have chosen the closest server to me under the Torrenting list (and also tried 3 other countries with the same issue) and I cannot get speeds over 1MB/s. When I turn VPN off I can get speeds up to 12MB/s. I am using Wireguard protocol. I have a link to a video showing the speed issue below:
So I moved over to Mullvad after troubleshooting with Cyberghost support and never getting better than 9MB down/9MB up. After installing the Mullvad VPN, I connected to my closest location and again, 9MB/9MB speed! I tried a different country, slightly worse but similar. VPN off - 108MB down/35MB up. Seems the issue may not have been CyberGhost, but rather there is a ‘block’ or something with either my ISP or router? I’m using a Linksys EA8500 running DD-WRT (build 47976) with the PC connected via ethernet. I’m going to see about configuring the router to use the OpenVPN config and see if I get the same results. I’ll also try my phone with mullvad app on both my WiFi and Mobile data and see what happens there.
Cyber ghost was good 8 years ago, they got a extremely declining speed and got bought by kape which is alarming in itself.
In my internal tests they peak 110mbit with an average 66mbit.
You should really invest in a better vpn.
The average ( on non slow hardware of you ) is a hit of 1-7% max on good vpn.
Ofc on most routers you will get a hit of 50% or even more cause of the weak hardware even with wireguard. But not on most average modern phones or desktops.