Perhaps he's just watching a web cam through the VPN, and that happens
to be the data rate for the camera #1. Today, he's also looking at
camera #2...
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On 12/31/2016 11:21 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I have a paranoid customer who does everything through a VPN service.
His download traffic graphs have been pegged at exactly 4M as if I had
a 4M queue on him but actually it�s set to 13M for a 12M speed tier.
Today his traffic doubled to 8M and I see the number of TCP flows has
doubled, 2 different IPs, both in the UK.
I can think of several factors that could explain the limited
throughput, including CPU horsepower if he is doing the encryption in
software on his computer or mobile device. But it seems strange that
it goes in increments of 4M.
Could this just be the inevitable result of using a VPN server in the
UK? What is typical VPN throughput to a server 100 ms away? I don�t
have a frame of reference, but 4 Mbps seems kind of low.
