A few months ago we got Sonic Fiber. I've found that using Sonic's VPN service sometimes slows my connection to pre-fiber speeds, forcing me to choose between VPN-protected access and the speed I was hoping for with fiber. This is time-of-day dependent (and the VPN service slows me down on various devices at the same time), so it doesn't seem it can all be attributed to the time my device takes to encrypt and decrypt traffic; that wouldn't make different devices slow down at the same time of day and shouldn't cause huge differences in speeds at different times of day.
I'm writing on Saturday a little before noon, when the problem is usually much less pronounced. I just tested with SpeedTest, and got:
Without VPN: down 224 Mbps, up 272
With VPN: down 140 Mbps, up 38 Mbps
I also did an "eyeball test" by visiting two similar jam-packed Web pages, and could see the much slower download with VPN active, so this doesn't seem to be a testing anomaly.
During high-traffic periods (weekday late afternoons), I can see speeds as low as 30 Mbps ↓ and 20 Mbps ↑ with the VPN active.
I'm particularly concerned about the much-slower upload speeds, because where I am most concerned about VPN privacy is when uploading files. Is Sonic planning to upgrade the speed of its VPN servers/service?
I'm writing on Saturday a little before noon, when the problem is usually much less pronounced. I just tested with SpeedTest, and got:
Without VPN: down 224 Mbps, up 272
With VPN: down 140 Mbps, up 38 Mbps
I also did an "eyeball test" by visiting two similar jam-packed Web pages, and could see the much slower download with VPN active, so this doesn't seem to be a testing anomaly.
During high-traffic periods (weekday late afternoons), I can see speeds as low as 30 Mbps ↓ and 20 Mbps ↑ with the VPN active.
I'm particularly concerned about the much-slower upload speeds, because where I am most concerned about VPN privacy is when uploading files. Is Sonic planning to upgrade the speed of its VPN servers/service?