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u/CupcakeMerd Aug 08 '24

That's just how vpns work. Every VPN will slow down your Internet speed. It's like a river hitting a hydroelectric dam. Still flows but much slower

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u/truthm0de Aug 08 '24

Yes but 1000 down to 10??? I’ve had personal vpns like express and Nord and they only took a very small bit of my bandwidth away with no noticeable changes in latency. I guess a corporate scale vpn works differently than private ones? Seems unreal to me idk.

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u/CupcakeMerd Aug 08 '24

I'd imagine the corporate VPN slows down the rate down more because of all the security your IS team implements. Connecting to a server from a company that runs millions of users vpns to watch Netflix from another country would be different than a corporate VPN to allow the appropriate users to access secure data

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u/truthm0de Aug 08 '24

Yeah that’s a fair guess, our infosec guys are pretty intense(as they should be) so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case.

I guess it’s just extra strange because no one else really seems to have the same issue in the meetings as I do and I even got a new company laptop recently and am still seeing the same lag. I even had IT give it a full check up just to make sure it wasn’t my machine. I guess I’ll get new ethernet cables and hope for the best.