mrgenie
Dear members,
I've successfully established a continental VPN between the family.
Unfortunately, 1 person lives in Germany where Internet still resides in the stone age.
Our clients from UK, Netherlands, Russia, etc all connect by using at least 30 Mbps upstream and 30Mbps downstream connections.
For them everything works fine.
However, the 1 client in Germany can only get 0,3Mbps connection from the German Telekom. I guess the Calendar on the German
Telekom still reads 1954 or something similar as they still use the old copper wires layed under the earth a century ago and thus
any connection over this old network is simply put very slow! Cable companies, and others already stated they won't really invest
in Germany. For example, in the small Netherlands the investments in the internet infrastructure are tripple compared to the investment
in the 8 times larger and rich Germany. With this rate of investment, I think we might expect a 10Mbit connection by 2200 or something.
For this reason I've decided to try to set up this client by Satelite.
On speedtest.net the Sat connection says: 650 ms Latency, 26Mbit Downstream and 4Mbit Upstream.
Reality checks, a real down and upload gives 2Mbyte/s down and 400Kbyte/s up.
However, the moment I connect by openVPN, which works splendidly for all other clients, this clients
bandwidth inside the VPN network drops to 0,02Mbps..
They only reason I can think off, is that the openVPN has problems with the high latency, although once the copy
process has been started, I don't see any reason why it should drop this dramatically. Maybe a drop of 10-20% would
be justified, but this is a drop of nearly 99%
Now I can post the settings of the Server and Client, but maybe, I hope, someone already knows how to setup openVPN
to handle high-latency links properly.
Server:
TAP
172.22.55.x
255.255.0.0
All clients in other subnets starting from 172.22.56 to 172.22.82 and 255.255.0.0
1194
UDP
AES-256 CBC
SHA256
TLS Cipher None
LZO Compression No
Redirect disabled
Client to Client allowed
Duplicate cn no
Tunnel MTU 1500
UDP Fragment 1300
UDP MSS-Fix enabled
Client configured accordingly.
I hope someone knows a setting to handle this issue.. Else I have to send back the Satelit within the 30 days money back period and there will be no other option then to establish a WLAN over 50km to the borders where the civilized world starts.
