I am having trouble getting good speed from my new Mudi GL-E750C6. I used a sim card in the device and also tethered it to my iPhone and I get about 5Mbps Down/Up testing on both laptop and a phone connected to Mudi WiFi. Using the sim card in the phone gives about 132/41 Mbps Down/Up. I am using NordVPN with Open VPN configured on the Phone and Mudi when checking those speeds so that testing speed on the iPhone and Mudi is roughly comparable.
If I switch off the VPN on the Mudi I get 23/24 Mbps Down/Up when tethering and the same with the sim card. So clearly using VPN is a problem. Why can I not get close to the speed I get on my phone on the Mudi with or without VPN?
Also the WiFi passthrough is similarly degraded. On my home WiFi router I get 250/40 down/up but on with Mudi connected by WiFi and using passthrough I get about about 48/24 down/up.
Basically as far as I can see you only get 20% of incoming speed for Sim, Tethering and WiFi passthrough and if you switch on VPN you get 20% of 20%.
Before I return the Mudi to the store I want to try to get a better VPN connection speed on it. Can anyone offer me advice on how to improve my speed?
Thanks a lot for that suggestion it’s the one thing I have not tried yet. I use NordVPN and apparently, they have decided to implement a proprietary version of Wireguard called NordLynx and when I looked it up it seemed like it was not so stable etc. Since it is proprietary I’m not sure if it’s compatible with my device, in fact I see it probably is not: What is NordLynx? Here’s Everything You Need to Know (2022) also the speed difference is on the order of 10% 20% faster at best which is insignificant compared to the 80% loss of speed the Mudi VPN is causing.
Solving the VPN loss of 80% speed would be good but there’s still the major issue of 80% loss of speed using Mudi for WiFi (described above in detail).
I will be sending it back, my verdict is it’s not nearly good enough for normal use.