VPN on Virgin

[mejinks]

I have a NAS at home that I would like to access remotely, so I have set up a Vigor router as an open vpn server and have also tried setting up as ssl vpn, none of these options allow me to connect to my home network at faster speeds then 3mbps.

Would I be right in saying that Virgin block or severely speed limit incoming VPN? If I view my cameras externally they take a very long time to connect also.

Im on the 250mb package currently. Has anyone else experienced this? Im getting very fed up with Virgin.

 

[mejinks]

TLDR: It's not Virgin, it's you.

Virgin have no intertest in limiting your upload below what you pay for, on 250 (264Mbit), that's 25Mbit up. OpenVPN is single threaded and really benefits from an FPU and even better, some hardware acceleration like AES-NI if you use a compatible encryption standard. Running OVPN on an SoC based router generally ends poorly, you'd be much better off using something more modern and efficient like Wireguard, but your router is unlikely to support that.

Cheers for the reply. I tried firstly with an old 2830, then a 2762. I've been looking to install and run Sophos XG home on an old box, but this is not installing. Raspberry pi is not something I had considered, so I will look into this. Thank you.