12 Aug
2021
12 Aug
'21
12:25 a.m.
On Aug 11, 2021, at 11:16, KUN LIN via 44Net
<44net(a)mailman.ampr.org> wrote:
If we will be connecting to the POP via VPN, I would highly recommend Wireguard instead
of OpenVPN. OpenVPN is kind of slow.
Kun
The reason I chose OpenVPN is because it supports TCP based tunnels. Quite by accident I
found the some ISPs are really sloppy when it comes to packet ordering. Visiting my
daughter once, her ISP (Cox) really jumbled things up horribly. To the point of being
unusable for IRLP voice. Switching to TCP, cleaned things right up. At least with TCP, the
stream is re-constituted with the packets all in order.
Some cheap routers do not like UDP very much, sometimes difficult or impossible to get UDP
to port forward correctly. Then we have many folks running around the countryside on RVs
or even in their car using cellular for Internet which brings in wildly changing network
condx
Besides IRLP does not need much performance, only around 80 kbps per connection tops. So
even with the extra overhead, it works great. Reliability of the connection was more
important to us than raw performance.
…and therein lies the Different strokes for different folks.
—
Dave K9DC