Outline VPN and DigitalOcean $5.... how many users? and what is the max speed?

December 10, 2018 1.6k views
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Sherbeeny
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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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  • pcservices June 10, 2019

    Have you tried the soft-ether VPN server, I am very satisfied with it. it has a few protocols, and you can create different hubs on each server for"Journalists" and etc.
    Digital ocean has the instruction on it.
    I myself am trying to check out the outline VPN and see eht the advantages/disadvantages are.
    babak

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jarland MOD December 10, 2018

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

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  • Sherbeeny December 10, 2018

    I wish there’s an easy way to attach a screenshot here.

    Anyway, my droplet CPU never exceeded 33% since day 1.
    The same for memory.
    Disk io reaches 4 MB/s

    But the bandwith, never exceedes 4 or 5.

    My internet speed is around 10 Mbps without Outline VPN… but max 4 with it.

mickelodian February 16, 2019

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.

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