PiVPN - What a great little tool

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I see no difference in speed between VPN and no VPN on my cell phone. But I have Verizon bidirectional gigabit service.

If your ISPs upload speed is crap (I’m looking at you Comcast!), your VPN service is going to suck.

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Are you sure you are running your pi also on a fast enough Ethernet cable and switch? I have zero issues with WireGuard and the overhead is negligible on my 500/500mbit/s internet connection, I do have a pi 4 8gb though, but I’m not sure if the Ethernet package on the 3b+ is different

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Upgrade your raspberry pi. You will get full throughput. 4b

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Cool. Thanks. Book marking this for whenever Starlink ends CGNAT

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I’m on Verizon FIOS. My IP address does not change, unless I reboot my router.

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Yeah. I’ve had my pivpn running for at least 1.5 years without a IP issue.
Edit: I really thought it would be a huge problem but not so far.

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I’ll have to try again and see. I already have openvpn installed, so maybe there’s a clash and I can’t run both at the same time?

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Good point. I should have mentioned that I have 100mbps up and down.

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Maybe it’s the older slower CPU. The RPi 3B+ has a 100mbps NIC that is hardwired to my router (1gbps LAN port, not that it matters) so that I don’t have Wi-Fi issues to throw in the mix. I ran speedtest-cli on the RPi and it was close to topping out my 100mbps ISP connection. I might have to get a new RPi and try it.

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Where are these unicorns available? I want one but certainly don’t want to overpay

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2 years later, but just in case you’re still looking for a solution for the CGNAT issue, check out Cloudflare tunnels. Been using that for the past year and it works flawlessly.

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I had both running at the same time. Try again and see what happens. If you have a problem, head over to /r/pivpn

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Better start with a fresh install or remove the other vpn stuff before you run the pivpn script

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I sometimes see faster service when I VPNed in. I think AT&T is throttling me.

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I might have to get a new RPi

Ha ha…

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(sigh)

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You need the 4b. Hardware was drastically updated to now give 900 mbs w/ WRT + wire guard around 800

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link

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Anybody got a solution to the Starlink problem?

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Yeah. I posted there but got no responses.

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It was installed with PiVPN originally. But yeah, I’ll have to see where it’s failing.