Sonic.net

Thanks. My employer recommends using Cloak, but mainly only when on public wifi.

Btw the OpenVPN app does work well with Sonic's vpn via iOS devices fine. I'm on it now to test it.

For me the Sonic VPN seems to eat up a few MB of downstream speed. Wish it was less but I guess that's the trade off.

Will using OpenVPN increase or decrease my DL speeds on my Fusion FTTN line?

jcarter1 wrote:Will using OpenVPN increase or decrease my DL speeds on my Fusion FTTN line?

Decrease, not drastically though YMMV.

A friend of mine did OpenVPN and his went from 17Mpbs to about 50Mbps. Care to explain anyone?!

jcarter1 wrote:A friend of mine did OpenVPN and his went from 17Mpbs to about 50Mbps. Care to explain anyone?!

It makes speedtest sites report inaccurate speeds. I don't know the technical reason why that is however. Unfortunately, it does not magically give your line more bandwidth or anything like that.

Well that's good to know. I'll rain in on his parade. LOL

jcarter1 wrote:Well that's good to know. I'll rain in on his parade. LOL

The speed test sites are probably reporting the bandwidth of the actual VPN server itself out to the internet, or something like that.

I had him go to DSLReports and it shows him back around the 17Mbps level.

So...what's the advantage of this again?

jcarter1 wrote:A friend of mine did OpenVPN and his went from 17Mpbs to about 50Mbps. Care to explain anyone?!

Depends how your friend is measuring his throughput. Sonic enables compression.

jcarter1 wrote:I had him go to DSLReports and it shows him back around the 17Mbps level.

So...what's the advantage of this again?

Sonic has better privacy than AT&T and they will only keep your traffic data for 2 weeks. That's pretty much it.