On Feb 20, 2018, at 9:11 PM, tom holloman <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Has anyone noticed their WiFi speed decreasing using a vpn? I just started > and notice that clicking on links from news articles takes longer than before. All your traffic is bouncing through at least one more node, so, of course it will be a little slower. It shouldn’t be a lot slower. It has nothing to do with your WiFi. To test how much slower things are, you can use a ping test. Run Applications/Utilities/Network Utility and click on the Ping selection. Pick one of your favorite addresses; e.g., www.apple.com <http://www.apple.com/>, and type it in. When you click the Ping button, you’ll get a list of round-trip times for packets to the server and back. When I tried www.apple.com <http://www.apple.com/> just now I got Ping has started… PING e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net <http://e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net/> (23.197.35.121): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=2.947 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=2.923 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=2.046 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=2.014 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=3.899 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=5 ttl=52 time=2.929 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=6 ttl=52 time=2.994 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=7 ttl=52 time=2.921 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=8 ttl=52 time=2.918 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=9 ttl=52 time=2.784 ms --- e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net <http://e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net/> ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.046/2.938/2.994/0.068 ms (It says the address is e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net <http://e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net/> because Akamai is Apple’s CDN.) Then I tried it again with the VPN turned on. Ping has started… PING e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net <http://e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net/> (23.197.35.121): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=4.964 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=4.880 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=5.060 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=5.038 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=5.287 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=5 ttl=52 time=4.839 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=6 ttl=52 time=4.840 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=7 ttl=52 time=4.990 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=8 ttl=52 time=4.833 ms 64 bytes from 23.197.35.121: icmp_seq=9 ttl=52 time=5.222 ms --- e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net <http://e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net/> ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 4.833/4.995/5.287/0.152 ms L^2 --- Lee Larson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Somehow it's okay for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
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