Any fast free VPN services out there?

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I am currently using OpenVPN but I rarely get 1Mb/s, typically about 20Kb/s. I have this connected to my home network which is 400 up and 30 down. I am wanting to send files to my NAS on my home network but this takes ages. Are there any ways to make OVPN faster or any alternatives?

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WireGuard is faster than OpenVPN (which I was using previously). It can saturate my gigabit connection.

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I’d wonder if however you set it up your having MTU issues. OpenVPN is a stable classic and the wireguard speed hype is a bit silly. You should not have any problems with OpenVPN unless you set it up wrong or are having network issues.

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I am not sure that I understand your setup. Do you use a free vpn service, that someone else is running? Or do your run your own vpn server on your NAS at home (and use openvpn as protocol)?

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I have amazing results with tailscale

Just set it up inside your LAN as a subnet router

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How fast is your mobile connection? 20kbps is really really slow. Is your openVPN set up for a tcp or a udp connection?

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You dont mention hardware which is important. What hardware is the VPN server on?

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You can opt for free hosted OpenVPN single instance from OpenVPN Cloud

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If its free its either a throttled demo or youre the product.

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if you need any free VPN you can use BrightVPN it has unlimited internet speed and has SmartDNS which allow you to change geolocalisation you can check that with ip2location, OpenVPN or wireguard both are same it is alternative to connect to a bandwidth that is hosting the IP, it could be the issue from the hoster (or lot of connections on his network).

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I know that the free VPN is VpnHouse. Everything is stable, there are a lot of servers, and they really don’t charge any money for the connection.

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I second this.
Wireguard is currently the fastest VPN option there is at the moment.
Easy enough to spin up a small container dedicated to managing it.

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I’ll look into the MTU stuff. I have it in a docker container, so it’s possible.

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I run my own service using the OpenVPN protocol from an LXC container in proxmox.

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I’ll check this out, I’m not familiar with it. Thanks :slight_smile:

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I get those speeds with my laptop connected to wifi. I believe it’s UDP.

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I’m running this from an LXC container in proxmox. 1 core, 512mb. Nothing crazy.

I have 32GB total of DDR4 and an i7-6700k processor. Plenty of power and 9TB of storage total

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Thank you! I’ll check out wireguard :slight_smile:

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If it’s docker in LXC then yes, definitely drop it down to like 1450 in the config and let us know if it improves. That’s a lot of networking overhead.

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I setup my own openvpn years ago on a vps. Ivpn is also good