Sonic joining forces with the dark side? (AT&T)

[dane]

Do fill out the survey!

https://www.research.net/s/Sonic-VPN

[klui]

Do fill out the survey!

https://www.research.net/s/Sonic-VPN

I did. Or am I the only person who selected IPsec? :)

[dane]

Few have told us they wanted IPsec:

IPsec: 11%
OpenVPN: 33%
Unknown/No preference: 56%

[droz037]

OK so....Intel NUC with a USB ethernet adapter and linux with OpenVPN it is for me

[klui]

Few have told us they wanted IPsec:

IPsec: 11%
OpenVPN: 33%
Unknown/No preference: 56%

Could you share how many people total took the survey?

For those who filled out the survey, I'm curious in knowing why you chose OpenVPN. At 50 Mbps for Fusion FTTN, I don't think there are any performance advantages of OpenVPN over IPsec and 3rd-party router firmware will also do IPsec. There must be something I missed as I have not followed OpenVPN.

[dane]

The survey has 75 responses currently.

[hhwong]

OpenVPN? Oh well. My Edgerouter Lite doesn't have hardware encryption support (IPSec does). I've seen reports of the ceiling being 7Mbps, which would be terrible for my FTTNx2 setup.

IPSec seems more widely supported by routers. Maybe we just have a bunch of desktop users who want to use the OpenVPN desktop client.

[droz037]

I've seen OpenVPN servers with Gbps of traffic going through them.

OpenVPN is actually faster than IPSec, but like you say not as widely supported.

My personal experience with OpenVPN has been mixed. It works well, when it works. There are also many versions of the server and client out there. Which can cause problems. Also it takes a bit more technical skill to setup and maintain than say a Juniper SRX or Cisco ASA which have nice visual interfaces for setting up IPSec tunnels.

Regardless of the decisions that Sonic makes. I think this new partnership is great and I look forward to finally getting fiber internet. I've been living here 7 years now and it's been painful not having 21st century technology for internet access.