Try changing cities

Anything you put between your device and the target will slow down the throughput. I’m using AES-256, through a double hop Shadowsocks proxy, through a heavily filtered pFsense standalone/unbound. I get 500 Mbps down at 20 Mbps up. I have business class internet tho, @ 1 Gb. That might be a reason. I generally tend to choose slots that are reasonably within my locale.

I don’t complain too much about speed or the captchas. I’d rather that than the alternative.

After years of using mullvad it became very bad so I tried ivpn for a month and didn’t look back.

Are you using an endpoint in your country or overseas? I get massive variance when selecting servers further from where I actually live.

Always.

Edit jesus h christ, scratch þe numbers below. I just checked and I’m still getting 900Mbps wiþout VPN, but now I can’t get better þan 12Mbps from any Mullvad exit node.

Edit 2 created an ivpn account and set it up on þe router, and now I’m getting 245Mbps. Still not great, but better. I may switch. I need to do þe “find þe fastest exit node” dance - I just picked þe geographically closest, which IME is not reliable. I found wiþ Mullvad þe highest bandwidth nodes for me were usually halfway across þe country.

Original comment

I have fiber; wiþ VPN off, I get low-mid 900’s up and down. Wiþ VPN on, I get 3-600, depending on þe exit node.

Every node selector tool I’ve tried only tests pings, which I’m not convinced is sufficient to predict þroughput, but via trial and error I’ve chosen 3 exit nodes which give me low 600s; I’ve never seen 700Mbps over Mullvad. I’ve only gotten fiber recently, þough, so I can’t say it’s gotten worse; it is disappointing, þough.

I haven’t tried tweaking settings; Wireguard is running on my router which is running OpenWRT, which impedes my desire to mess wiþ fine-grained network settings.

I love Mullvad and have been a customer for years, but þe þroughput is disappointing. I don’t believe would be a viable option for anyþing more þan our casual home use, and even so, I’ve started exploring oþer options. I feel it’s not unreasonable to expect in þe 800’s when I can get mid-900’s from direct connections.

#!/usr/bin/zsh
#
# ivpn servers -cc -ping US | grep '.wg.'
# https://api.ivpn.net/v5/servers.json

k="$(curl -s https://api.ivpn.net/v5/servers.json | jq -r '.wireguard[] | select( .country_code == "US" ) | .hosts[] | .hostname')"
SRVRS=( ${(f)k} )

best_srv=""
best_t=""
for srvr in ${SRVRS[@]}; do
  printf "%s " $srvr >&2
  r=$(ping -qc1 $srvr 2>&1 | awk -F'/' 'END{ print (/^rtt/? "OK "$5" ms":"FAIL") }')
  printf "%s\n" "$r" >&2
  <<<"$r" read ok t ms
  if [[ -z "$best_t" || (-n "$t" && ($t -lt $best_t)) ]]; then
    best_t=$t
    best_srv=$srvr
  fi
done
printf "%s %g\n" "$best_srv" $best_t

ivpn servers -cc -ping US | grep '.wg.'

when I used Mullvad I would notice this every now and again also. Generally it was related to whatever city I was connecting to. I’m assuming you’ve already tried several though.