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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?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

it looks like provider is not rate limiting:

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

answer: no but ddos protection is active and that affects speed a lot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'll ask provider

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But when I tested speed on VPS, using speedtest-cli I got this:

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You missed OVH and DOS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Could be an ipv6 issue in which case reducing the MTU might help

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where is your VPS located, and which Wire Guard server are you connecting to?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Romania, and I didn't understand your second question.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 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.