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Mullvad VPN Speeds (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 days ago by obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been a user of Mullvad for a while and love there stance on privacy. I really like how they have stayed focused. But recently I feel like there speeds have gotten way worse.

For example I may be able to get 150ish up and down without a VPN but once I add Mullvad it gets way slower. Still very useable for most tasks but limiting when I have bigger downloads. This is across several different networks to eliminate it just being an individual network problem.

Has anyone else been experiencing this?

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Anything you put between your device and the target will slow down the throughput. I'm using AES-256, through a double hop Shadowsocks proxy, through a heavily filtered pFsense standalone/unbound. I get 500 Mbps down at 20 Mbps up. I have business class internet tho, @ 1 Gb. That might be a reason. I generally tend to choose slots that are reasonably within my locale.

I don't complain too much about speed or the captchas. I'd rather that than the alternative.