Advice to newbies - VPN speeds - GL-MT300N-V2

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I’m a new user of the GL-MT300N-V2 and I think it’s a great product for the price

BUT

I was getting poor OpenVPN speed throughput - I spent a week trying different settings, different providers, until I finally realized this little box was the cause of throughput issues.

I’m referring to a throughput of about 4Mbps on a 30Mbps connection.

After realising the box was the cause of the bottleneck I did the usual searching and researching and read a post on here that said there were limitations BUT specifically:

“The mini router can achieve 8mbps to 10mbps openvpn and 50Mbps with wireguard”

As it happens, this was in reference to the box as a VPN Server

However, I signed up for a WireGuard VPN and I’m getting much better throughput - 20Mbps consistent.

This is not an endorsement of VPN services just my own experience and hopefully save other users the same frustration.

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This is actually for Openvpn client. Openvpn is slow on this small device.

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Any screen shot of the configuration

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Using a GL-300N-V2 as a Openvpn client and cannot get a speed over 9M downloading from a speed test web site with a PC wired to the 300N and connected to a nearby commercial vpn server. I get 500M download speed when connected without the vpn.

Is the 300N just this slow?

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MT300N-V2 is not fast in OpenVPN. Use mV1000 if you want to achieve high speed in OpenVPN

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Thanks for the help. I thought I must have the wrong hardware. Now to figure out if the mV1000 is the best for me.

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Bought a Brume GL-MV1000 and am getting 50M reliably via Openvpn from NordVPN. Very happy. Might try Wireguard with NordVPN at some point, but even Openvpn is pretty good.

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