I’ve been with PIA for around 8 years and broadly happy with them. Except for speeds.
I’m UK based and, using pfsense, have several VPNs (OpenVPN) set up to London / Southampton / Netherlands.
fast.com gets me to 500Mb/s when not on VPN but on VPN I’m seeing less than 100,
pfsense hardware is a protectelli i5 with hardware AES/NI and enabled so don’t _think_ the problem is there (but happy to be told otherwise)
Curious - what are others seeing?
Time to move to Wireguard?
Edit:
Thanks for the offers for help from various people. Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of pulling this repo and that repo and sedding these together and smashing it in with eye of nuet.
It’s my firewall and I want native setup.
PIA Support also confirmed “we don’t do it”.
Thus, after many years, I’ll move away.
I tried Proton as their wiki had a fool proof step by step guide which worked perfectly. So far I seem to get near wire speed so I’ll stick around and see how it goes.
It is to me unacceptable that pia doesn’t offer wireguard configuration files.
There’s a way to generate config files for the router I’m using but you also need to remake the configuration files every couple weeks because they stop working
A royal pita
Do of course I went with another vpn and there’s works flawlessly
Using wireguard on my 8 gigabit connection I can sustain around 1100 megabit. It’d be nice for it to saturate the full connection - but it’s fine. I use split tunnel for some apps, so the rest of my system has access to the remainder of my bandwidth.