I bought VPS and configured wg-easy, but speed for download is too slow, while speed for uploading is not so bad. Why this might be happening?

  • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    My WG traffic looked like a DOS attack to OVH and I got blackholed for 5min, then 15, then 30.

    My guess is your provider is rate limiting your UDP traffic.

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        2 months ago

        You could also try a VPS from hetzner and see if its any better. Here’s my speed test just now using WG on my cell, exit through Hetzner.

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            Yeah, that sounds about right to me. I’d look for a different provider if you’re looking for speed. Like I said above, OVH was unusable to me so I went to hetzner.

            Lookup “lowendbox” if you want something cheap. I used some Christmas or new year deal at racknerd that was alright.

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                2 months ago

                Good luck!

                If you want to stay with whatever provider you have you can try openVPN over TCP or a SOCKS proxy over SSH (both TCP traffic). Anything TCP might be faster than WG

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        Is your test TCP or UDP? My guess is that’s TCP traffic.

        Your VPS provider can rate limit as specific as a single UDP port. Try a different WG UDP port or wrap your WG traffic in TCP with other software and try again.

  • Da Bald Eagul@feddit.nl
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    Having never used this software before, my guess would be your VPS provider is limiting the upload speed of the VPS. The data would be uploaded slowly to you, which means your download speed is limited as the client.

    Meanwhile the upload speed is reported as being high enough, since the VPS can download your data at 50mbit/s, as this cap is higher.

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        2 months ago

        That is likely a speed test server within the same data center as your vps, or they have special traffic shaping rules for it.

        Try using iperf from your local box to the VPS and see what speeds you get

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      Yeah I’d check for fragmentation, particularly coming from whatever was on the opposite end of this tunnel. This looks like librespeed (which is super simple to run in a container, ‘adolfintel/speedtest‘, if interested…I run some at work and it’s very useful) so I’m assuming it was running on the server at the other end of the wireguard tunnel?

      That latency and jitter are also absurd tho. Op should run a bufferbloat test on both sides. Though I don’t always trust those results from librespeed.

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    IP Internet Protocol
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
    UDP User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Have you tried running librespeed on the vps? Librespeed is good if you have a provider nearby. If not it is very inaccurate

  • vividspecter@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    You could try headscale instead, which doesn’t actually pass much traffic between the VPS and clients (client to client is where the actual data transfer happens).

    Or just test out regular hosted Tailscale to see if it will fit your needs.