Closed zachoooo closed 4 years ago
I think it's more a PIA issue. Slow downloadspeeds are one of the reasons why I switched over to another provider. My PIA subscribtion is still active so I did a compare for you on the same system as I use for my actual provider (Surfshark) with region "The Netherlands".
PIA
/ # curl --output /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 500M 100 500M 0 0 1297k 0 0:06:34 0:06:34 --:--:-- 1208k
Surfshark
/ # curl --output /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 500M 100 500M 0 0 19.4M 0 0:00:25 0:00:25 --:--:-- 22.1M
@Frepke You're right it was a PIA problem. Good catch there.
Whoa the speed difference is big, although I get some 25MB/s on other PIA regions, so maybe that's a per region issue.
@zachoooo btw PUID and PGID don't do anything, these are specific to linuxserver's docker images I think.
TLDR: My VPN container has very upload and download speeds compared to what I should be able to get
Is this urgent?
What VPN service provider are you using?
What's the version of the program?
Running version latest built on 2020-07-25T15:20:14Z (commit 8f54750)
What are you using to run the container?
Extra information
I currently have a 300Mbps connection and when I try using the PIA speed test to the region I'm connecting to, I manage to get 200-300Mbps pretty consistently. I tried running speed tests in other docker containers and none of them are much slower than my desktop. When I tried running some simple curl based speed tests within the docker container I was averaging speeds of only 2-3MBps. Additionally, when I try routing another container through this VPN, it's speed is greatly reduced. I know that a VPN can reduce speed pretty substantially, but this seems like a huge drop compared to what I should be getting.
Here is an example speed test from one of my other containers and one from within the vpn:
What can I do to get more reasonable speeds?
Logs:
Configuration file:
Host OS: Debian Linux