I've discovered something that strikes me as odd and I was curious about it.
I originally got DSL when it was first offered on Sonic ...which seems like ages ago. I remember, at the time, my speed was around 7 mbps, give or take.
Over the years, it has degraded down to just less than 4 mbps so I decided to get the X2 DSL installed. That was completed last week and I'm happy to say that my speed went up to around 11mbps which is nearly triple.
Now for the odd part.
I decided to use the OpenVPN service with Sonic. So I downloaded the software, installed it and logged on. I decided to run a speed test as I figured connecting to a VPN would degrade my speed somewhat and I wanted to see how much. Imagine my surprise when my speed went up to nearly 30 MBPS ...up to 3x my normal speed! This is wonderful but how does this happen?
I originally got DSL when it was first offered on Sonic ...which seems like ages ago. I remember, at the time, my speed was around 7 mbps, give or take.
Over the years, it has degraded down to just less than 4 mbps so I decided to get the X2 DSL installed. That was completed last week and I'm happy to say that my speed went up to around 11mbps which is nearly triple.
Now for the odd part.
I decided to use the OpenVPN service with Sonic. So I downloaded the software, installed it and logged on. I decided to run a speed test as I figured connecting to a VPN would degrade my speed somewhat and I wanted to see how much. Imagine my surprise when my speed went up to nearly 30 MBPS ...up to 3x my normal speed! This is wonderful but how does this happen?