apeg
Setup:
- 2x openVPN tomato routers (one server/client)
- SMB NAS connected to the server router
- 2x computers (Ubuntu, Windows) connected to the client router
I use the Ubuntu computer to play video content from the NAS and it works flawlessly outside of peak internet usage times (Sunday 8-10:30…). During peak times the video playback is very unstable, mass fluctuation in speed cause the buffer to dry up. Looking at both the client and server openVPN logs there is no connectivity issues or reconnections made.
So far everything makes sense…
But, I discovered that if on the windows machine I copy/paste large amounts of data from the NAS (a transfer that would take hours) and let that run while I then watch a video on the Ubuntu machine (meaning ½ my bandwidth is being used) the instability and speed fluctuations vanish and playback is smooth.
I don’t think this is an openVPN issues but I’m just not smart enough to figure out what else could be causing such results?
Originally I was running with no cipher and thought perhaps my greedy monopolistic cable ISP was throttling video packets during peak because they are too dim to compete with Netflix. But after enabling AES-128 I was getting identical results in terms of the copy/paste solution.
Again, I don’t think this is openVPN and can’t provide logs because the connection shows zero issues. It’s more of a speed/stability issues but I don’t have a tenth of the brains to know where to start, I’m wondering if any of the highly bright individuals here could point me in the right direction? I’m months deep trying to figure this out myself, so I’ll even take hunches if you’re willing.
Thanks to all!
