Hi all. I assume this is a frequent topic and I have found many close posts, but none that touch the important points. I have the Beryl configured, using ethernet to my ISP router, and am connecting my laptop to the Beryl's WIFI. Great speeds/ping without VPN. with VPN OPENVPN through NORDVPN, i get about 5mbps (yes mbps not MB/s) up/down no matter which server I chose.
Is this normal? others have said "mini routers dont have the horsepower, blah blah" but the product description on their website says openVPN should get 150mbps and 300mbps with wireguard. Other locations on website say is should get 21mbps.
When the VPN client enabled and connected to the VPN provider, the bottleneck of traffic speed is supposed to be the VPN server network I/O or the link I/O to the VPN server. As just you mentioned that the LAN (WLAN) and WAN of router is great sppeds/ping, means that VPN and NAT are enough good performance in this router.
Let me add a bit more. If I use openvpn on my computer, i get good speeds. Over 100mbps. If I do it through the beryl, same server, same download. I only get 5mbps. I cant see it being the beryls processor as it reports low loads in the beryls setup page while downloading. If it cant do what it advertises, Id like to send it back. Id be happy with even half or a quarter of what it advertises.
Just ran this test with my MT3000 Beryl AX connected to my local ExpressVPN server with OpenVPN. Getting about 100 Mbps both download and upload and that is over Wi-fi not to close to my main router. So seems to work just fine for me. Are you using the original Beryl (MT1300) or Beryl AX (MT3000)? I have found the VPN performance of the MT3000 to be much better than the old MT1300.
i'd be happy with that. what VPN service would you recommend? maybe it's NordVPN limiting my beryl 3000 ax. if I remember corectly when I first hooked up the VPN i had about 30 seconds of about 100mbps then it slowed down and stayed that way.
well I dunno what to say. I went and paid for an AZIRE vpn subscription, and connected via WIREGUARD... and I got the same 5-7mbps. In a last ditch effort, I disconnected the Beryl 3000ax from ethernet (I was using the ribbon ethernet cable that came with the Beryl) and moved my router to another room, and connected it to my existing WIFI as a repeater... and got a blazing 250mbps!!! So to properly test, I reconnected the beryl to OPENVPN NORDVPN and got a blazing 100-120mbps... So was it the router position? the ribbon ethernet cable? I got full ISP speeds without a VPN... doesn't make sense.... but it's working at the moment.
Before you disconnected the router you said that you tested the VPN and got around 5-7mbits however you also stated you got good speeds without the VPN. Did you check the non VPN speeds straight after disconnecting the VPN connection? or could it be possible you didnt check the non VPN speeds straight away and based your "good speed" from previous speed results?
The reason I say this is because I doubt it had anything to do with location, it could be a faulty cable / bug that caused your negotiation link to be 10mbits mode which would make more sense but it would have also effected non VPN speeds too.
when I bought the Beryl 3000ax it came with a short, 2 foot ethernet cable. it's not a twisted pair cable, it looks like a telephone cable, but there are 4 pairs in it and an RJ45 plug on the end. I used that cable to plug it into my ISP router. then I connected my laptop via WIFI. I tested the NON-vpn speeds with speedtest.net and had great speeds. near full ISP speeds. then I connected my NORDVPN router settings in the BERYL and got 5-7mbps (openvpn). physically the Beryl was about 2 inches from my ISP router. I could toggle the VPN on and off and could reproduce the speeds. I ran this was most of yesterday. Today I moved the router accross the room using WIFI repeater mode, no cables, and get amazing speeds. I will run it a few more days for testing and will try a make a custom ethernet cable for it later to see what's up.
I actually tested the nonVPN speeds long before I tested the VPN speeds. I had it open for a few hours and had great speeds. later in the evening I tried the VPN, set up NORDVPN OPENVPN, got the green light in the web interface for VPN ACTIVE. and long enough for me to run through 3 different SPEEDTEST.NET by OOKLA, i got what reported to be 100mbps. I went for dinner and the rest of the night was 5mbps. hence my original post.
