Question
Outline VPN and DigitalOcean $5.... how many users? and what is the max speed?
- Posted on December 10, 2018
- VPNUbuntu 18.04
Asked by Sherbeeny
I’m using outline with digital ocean… $5. I tested all digitalocean server before selecting a region… the fastest speed and ping was for frankfurt… so I went with it.
But then, I found that my internet test speed never exceeds 5 Mbps! And whenever I test through fast.com, it freezes the whole server that I have to manually restart it from DigitalOcean dashboard.
Is it a problem with outline or digitalocean? And how to fix it?
What is the maximum users it can serve at the same time? what is the max speed if only a single device is using it?
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It’s just a question of clarification really but first is this VPN a UDP or TCP and if it’s TCP is it also using a wrapper like stunnel.
UDP is faster right but TCP using stunnel is more covert…and offer much more robust encryption… but lots slower.
Hey friend,
I’m sorry about the trouble you’ve had with this. I’d like to encourage anyone else reading this to weigh in, don’t take my answer as the only one. I do have opinions on it though :)
My opinion is that you’re probably looking at a strong encryption on the traffic, and that the CPUs used in Frankfurt are not the best for it when used in a single core droplet. Those CPUs shine when multi-threading. Try out some other locations, maybe London.
Personally I’ve had much better results in NYC3 (I’m in Texas). You might as well, though latency is going to be a bit more obviously.
Jarland