My wife uses a Chromebook to work from home. She has a hard line connection to the router with a download speed of 400+mbs. When she turns on the VPN speed drops down to 10 and below.
We are on fiber Internet and I have been trouble shooting this for a while and at a loss.
Is there another VPN app that we could use on the Chromebook? I think the invanti app just tanks the performance of the Chromebook
It’s likely doing full tunnel VPN, which means all of her traffic is flowing over the VPN, to wherever the VPN is located, then out to the internet.
If her employer has set the VPN connection speed to 10Mb/s (which is sounds like they did, because they feel that it’s a sufficient speed for a remote user), and the VPN client runs as a full-tunnel connection (also sounds like it is), then, there isn’t a damned thing that you can do about it.
Also, if that’s a company-issued Chromebook, it’s subject to her employer’s acceptable-use policies.
TL;DR: company hardware and VPN is for work use only. Get her a personal machine for personal use.