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Netgear R7000 and OpenVPN speeds - anyone?
Hi all,
I have the R7000 and have installed DDWRT onto it. However, I have a bit of an issue where the OpenVPN speeds through the router itself aren't able to get above 30mbit - if I run the client seperately on my PC to make the VPN connection I get 152 mbit.
The guide I followed was similar to this - http://www.instructables.com/id/Configure-VPN-Settings-on-a-DD-WRT-Router-for-Priv/
Was wondering if I need to change anymore OpenVPN settings to get a better speeds or if anyone has experience of the speeds you can get through the R7000 once its connected to a VPN.
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The limiting factor seems to be the CPU that's in the router.
I thought it might be the case, I guess I can run top and then try and max the connection out to see if it hits 100%?
dd-wrt on r7000 is limited by cpu. switch to merlin to get better performance.
Lower the encryption, disable compression, and overclock that CPU.
sndbuf 0 rcvbuf 0 tun-mtu 16000In both server and client config. Should help a bit.
@belink switched to merlin and got exactly the same speeds, neither core is hitting more than 50% utilisation whilst downloading at 30mbit so
I'm a bit confused.
@valdokss tried that to no avail, but thanks for the suggestion.
I had trouble breaking 500mbit in iperf to my isp server via ddwrt... then switch to merlin I was able to pull 900mbit.
Overclock the CPU. If openvpn can utilize dual cores it works help.