VPN - Chromebooks and OpenVPN

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Might not be news - but Google has native support in ChromeOS for OpenVPN along with L2TP/IPSec

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1282338?hl=en

 

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Chromebooks are about to become much more powerful...

See below - this is in the dev channel... interesting stuff indeed...

 

[Privacy Nut]

OpenVPN is a CPU heavy task. I wonder what are the speeds you can get on a Chromebook and whether it slows the computer down...

 

[RMerlin]

If the CPU has AES-NI support then performance should be pretty good.

 

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Most of the current Intel based Chromebooks do have AES-NI - so performance should be adequate - and ChromeOS is lightweight compared to Windows 10 on similar HW.

 

[elorimer]

A data point: one Chromebook I have is a $90 Lenovo 100e 2d edition, with a MT8173 processor, from early 2020. Over a 5G wireless connection to my router.

Speedtest, no vpn: 170 down, 26 up (this is with cake limiting bandwidth to 185 down, 28 up).
Speedtest, openvpn client to VPN unlimited: 30 down, 20 up.
Speedtest, wireguard to VPN unlimited: 46 down, 22 up.