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posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 08 2018, @04:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the know-your-client dept.

According to Techradar, there are 8 reasons to replace your VPN client with OpenVPN.

Sign up for a new VPN and it makes sense to use your provider's clients. They should work right away, with no setup hassles, and you'll get easy access to any bonus features the service offers: encrypted DNS, ad blocking, split tunnelling, whatever they might be.

But what if your VPN doesn't have any bonus features, or its clients are so feeble and underpowered that they can't deliver the power you need?

OpenVPN could be the answer. It's an ultra-configurable open source VPN client which works with just about any VPN provider that supports the OpenVPN protocol. It gives you new ways to automate, optimize, control and troubleshoot your connections, and you can use it alongside your existing client, or maybe replace it entirely – it's your call.

The package won't be for everyone, but experienced VPN users in particular could have a lot to gain. We've listed eight good reasons you might want to give OpenVPN a try.

That is if you'e not just running over SSH or IPsec already.


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  • (Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Monday January 08 2018, @05:02PM (1 child)

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Monday January 08 2018, @05:02PM (#619580) Journal

    For some reason, OpenVPN for me (using a commercial VPN provider) has been seriously slow under Linux as well as implemented directly on my dd-wrt router. Running OpenVPN under Windows appears to get me about 158 Mbps of my 200 Mbps connection. Under Linux or on my dd-wrt router it's a fraction of that...sometimes as low as 22 Mbps.

    From various things I've read I strongly suspect its the comp-lzo (LZO compression) that may be the culprit, though I have have no way to test that as I'm sure my provider requires that to be enabled. Other stuff I've read about tweaks sounds like a total dead end.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @10:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @10:57PM (#619758)

    I would give my left tit for that level of throughput