VPN and broadband speed

Currently having problems with BT Fibre speeds with Norton's VPN package, would it affect overhaul speed, using the BT Wholesale checker on wifi it records anything between 100/600Mbps upload, download is fairly constant around 8.
My package is up to 53 Mbps / 10. maximum possible speed 73.

Any network software could impact on how a speed checker works as they potentially may cache or otherwise affect the network stream. Also, the BT speed checker is not great for actually checking speeds - have you tried the TBB checker on this site - the other benefit being that the site owners can look at the data in the background if there are issues?

If yo are referring to http://www.speedtest.btwholesale.com/ then yeah its broken, it says I am getting 1.5Gbps which would be great LOL

Paul

Are you actually asking about a problem with low speeds on the VPN or about dodgy speedtest results?

With a VPN you are tunnelling over your providers pipe to a different location and router.

This can give several different effects as well as hiding your browsing from your provider.

1. The tunnel is smaller than your providers pipe,
2. The equipment at the other end of the tunnel may have an effect on your speed as the tunnel may be limited by the equipment.
3. Speed testers will be communicating with the VPN host not direct to you so may not be testing what you expect.
4 Speed tests may be 'fooled' by the new end point and give a speed to that endpoint NOT to you. this may give higher speeds rather than lower, this may differ upload/download depending on what the end switch does with the test,

The use of a VPN is designed to do all of the above but people may not realise all the potentials.

I always ask " do you trust your VPN provider more than your ISP? "

"Which country is controlling your VPN and do you trust them?"

Are you sure Deep packet inspection is not looking at the data within the VPN making it less secure than being lost in the everyday packets?
Etc


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How sure are you on 3 and 4?

All the VPN I have used test against the web browser on the computer running the VPN client.

To speed test against the VPN host (do you mean server) that would be pretty clever.

Thanks for your reply will look at TBB

In reply to a post by kitcat:

Are you actually asking about a problem with low speeds on the VPN or about dodgy speedtest results?

With a VPN you are tunnelling over your providers pipe to a different location and router.

This can give several different effects as well as hiding your browsing from your provider.

1. The tunnel is smaller than your providers pipe,
2. The equipment at the other end of the tunnel may have an effect on your speed as the tunnel may be limited by the equipment.
3. Speed testers will be communicating with the VPN host not direct to you so may not be testing what you expect.
4 Speed tests may be 'fooled' by the new end point and give a speed to that endpoint NOT to you. this may give higher speeds rather than lower, this may differ upload/download depending on what the end switch does with the test,

The use of a VPN is designed to do all of the above but people may not realise all the potentials.

I always ask " do you trust your VPN provider more than your ISP? "

"Which country is controlling your VPN and do you trust them?"

Are you sure Deep packet inspection is not looking at the data within the VPN making it less secure than being lost in the everyday packets?
Etc


Thanks for your reply greatly appreciated

Thanks Paul that explains at lot, I wondered if it was just me getting consistence stupid readings like 625Mbps off a 73 line.