MakeItRain
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I use Raspberry Pi OpenVPN. It works SUPERBly. No issues whatsoever.
What are your speeds when going through the VPN and are you using the Raspberry Pi 3 B+?I use Raspberry Pi OpenVPN. It works SUPERBly. No issues whatsoever.
Yes its a version 3, I don't think it's a 3B+.What are your speeds when going through the VPN and are you using the Raspberry Pi 3 B+?
Best is to use a speedtester to see if you would saturate your 10 uplink. Call this A. Then measure what your bandwidth would be when viewing your video footage. Call this B. If B>A, you are already in trouble. If B<A you're already good.When connecting to your VPN (OpenVPN or similar) your connection speed is dependent on your ISP's upload speed, correct?
My ISP service is a 400d/10u so I connect in remotely to my network so my max download speed is roughly around my ISP's upload limit.
One night I was thinking that maybe my router's hardware was not up to par and limiting my remote download speed and I was looking into faster processing routers or making one but then a light bulb turned on and I realize it would be a waste...Can someone confirm my thought?
Speedtest is often offered by your internet provider (eg for AT&T: AT&T High Speed Internet Speed Test, a Belgian ISP speedtest is Speedtest van Telenet). When doing these kind of tests, you can try to "saturate" your downstream and upstream channels, and you'll notice what bandwidth your "edge" on the internet can provide (which might be capped by a software threshold, or a hadware "limiter" - eg you are 200m from the last transceiver).I just use openvpn on asus router and openvpn app on phone to connect. Quick.
10 uplink? I lost you on speedtester. What do you test?
Pi4 is expensive for a VPN now. ERX would probably be better with more features.The new Rasperry Pi 4 should be a fast workhorse for OpenVPN usage and rather cheap one at that. Or you could just use a Ubiquiti ERX as well.
Not really, I just love cryptic answers. He was suggesting a stand alone appliance.is that an answer to my question?
Thank you looney!Not really, I just love cryptic answers. He was suggesting a stand alone appliance.
Yes, you can run it on your BlueIris server.
How To Guide: Set Up & Configure OpenVPN client/server VPN | OpenVPN
Yet keep in mind the security impact of running a VPN service endpoint on a device which provides 99% other capabilities than networking alone. Hence I also like the answer of the Sonicwall: this is a 100% networking device, and slim chances are that it will not be infested with virusses/trojan horses/lacking security fixes than the average win10 pc with tons of bloatware, reboot schedules, not to mention that if your vpn gets hammered (and yes, it will be discovered by chinese scanners, and yes, it will be hammered), your most crucial part of your video surveillance systems will suffer - in worst case: give up.Thank you looney!