Hi All,
I am learning all things networking that includes flashed routers using alternative firmware such as DD-WRT and tomato.
Background: I have an E1200 cisco/linksys router that I have successfully flashed with tomato firmware. I have enabled openVPN client feature and configured it to work with PrivateInternetAccess VPN site. - all good so far.
Question: My download speed (using speedtest website) is 1/5th of my available bandwidth when routing through the Cisco E1200 router with VPN enabled. While there could be many reasons why I have such slow performance, I would like to tackle them one by one.
To start with, in reading the various blogs/forums, seems that having a fast CPU on the router is important as it is doing the encrypting of data being passed through that. Ok, I get that. The CPU on E1200 is 300Mhz. Granted its not the fastest, however, if CPU does play a big role in performance, why is it that I see it being taxed less than 2%, yet my downloading speed is very slow.
Can I rule out the CPU and move on to the next area to tackle the slow download speed ?
thank you
XMFan
I am learning all things networking that includes flashed routers using alternative firmware such as DD-WRT and tomato.
Background: I have an E1200 cisco/linksys router that I have successfully flashed with tomato firmware. I have enabled openVPN client feature and configured it to work with PrivateInternetAccess VPN site. - all good so far.
Question: My download speed (using speedtest website) is 1/5th of my available bandwidth when routing through the Cisco E1200 router with VPN enabled. While there could be many reasons why I have such slow performance, I would like to tackle them one by one.
To start with, in reading the various blogs/forums, seems that having a fast CPU on the router is important as it is doing the encrypting of data being passed through that. Ok, I get that. The CPU on E1200 is 300Mhz. Granted its not the fastest, however, if CPU does play a big role in performance, why is it that I see it being taxed less than 2%, yet my downloading speed is very slow.
Can I rule out the CPU and move on to the next area to tackle the slow download speed ?
thank you
XMFan