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Lumute
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2014-May-27 12:23 am
[Internet] Is Rogers still throttling VPN?Hi,
I have Hybrid Fibre 150 at home and I just setup a IPSec BOVPN tunnel using Watchguard Enterprise devices on both sides to my office that has a symmetrical 40Mbps fiber connection.
Going outside of the VPN I can get the full potential of the links (minus overhead of course): 39Mpbs down / 15 Mbps up, but through the VPN I have not been able to get anything higher than 25 Mbps down / 15 Mbps up. Although 25 Mbps is not slow it is a big difference and I'm trying to figure out why...
I have these Watchguard devices deployed at different locations and I know for a fact they are capable of a much higher VPN Throughput. I have also tried clearing the DF Bit on the external interfaces as many suggest and playing with the MTU but it has not helped at all...
I have heard a lot that rogers does not throttle anymore, how can we know for sure? could they still be throttling VPN / Encrypted traffic? |
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sbrook Mod join:2001-12-14 Ottawa |
sbrook
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2014-May-27 6:32 pm
Rogers doesn't throttle. |
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SimplePandaBSD Premium Member join:2003-09-22 Montreal, QC |
to Lumute
Nor did they ever throttle IPSec traffic as far as I know.
Who is your office fibre link with? |
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Did you have this problem before you got the CGN3 or did it happen after you got the CGN3?
The reason I ask is because I had similar issues when using the CGN3; even in bridge mode the modem was degrading the my encrypted VPN traffic. Almost felt like the modem had QoS running specifically to slowing down VPN traffic. Similar behavior was observed with ICMP traffic.
Anyway, I got rid of the CGN3 and everything went back to normal and no changes were made to the firewall. |
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MashikiBalking The Enemy's Plans join:2002-02-04 Woodstock, ON |
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said by sbrook:Rogers doesn't throttle. You mean Rogers doesn't throttle anymore, so they say. And people are required to take their word on it. Remember all those sandvine boxes they were using? |
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sbrook Mod join:2001-12-14 Ottawa |
sbrook
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2014-May-31 11:47 am
I remember them well. There is absolutely no evidence of throttling by the throttling detection software after the investigation by CRTC about game throttling complaints.
There certainly seem to be QoS issues with the gateway modem/ routers that Rogers have been using though that seem to go away with changing the gateway. This is a common complaint for these gateways across many ISPs, so it's not a Rogers specific "throttling" issue. |
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said by Mashiki:said by sbrook:Rogers doesn't throttle. You mean Rogers doesn't throttle anymore, so they say. And people are required to take their word on it. Remember all those sandvine boxes they were using? Given I routinely max out my 150/10 connection on both encrypted and non-encrypted traffic (and saturate the Office WAN over the VPN tunnel since they're stuck at 10/10) being a rather heavy user of the unlimited plan, I can definitively say there is absolutely no throttling at all anymore. |
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SimplePandaBSD Premium Member join:2003-09-22 Montreal, QC |
Yep.
My Rogers business connections (which were all previously throttled the same as residential ones) all say the same: Rogers doesn't throttle anymore per their ITMP statement. |
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What Rogers gateway are you using? Also what model of Watchguard? Reason I ask if you are using the CGN3 with any router/firewall (Watchguard included) that only has 10/100 network interfaces you will have severe performance issues. The CGN3 does not auto-neg 10/100 interfaces properly...leaves it at half duplex on the CGN3 side with no way to force anything else. |
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