Originally Posted by
trueblu
Re: speeds, at least going by speedtest.net (and anecdotally), I do notice a significant drop in speed on vpn compared with off, for routine browsing. But this drop is no worse, and usually better than my academic vpn.
Interestingly, I downloaded some TV shows yesterday. With the VPN off, I was getting something atrocious like 15k down. But, after turning it on (Chicago server), that shot up to 100k in a matter of minutes. I suspect that my ISP is probably throttling P2P bandwidth. Strangely, skype seems to work better with it on as well. I'm not sure why.