Why are my socks proxies slow
- by vps_newcomer
I have a linux vps, and i have tried a few socks proxy setups to test their performance:
All tests were using speedtest.net
The standard ssh tunnel proxy
0.8mbit/s download and 0.1-0.2mbit/s upload speeds
dante-server proxy
1.3mbit/s download and 0.4-0.5mbit/s upload
I am wondering why are these speeds so slow? Is anything shaping them? Is it just the nature of socks proxies? I know that the ssh tunnel has to do encryption and what not so that is why its slow, but i was surprised to see that the second setup was also quite slow.
On the VPS i have received download speeds of 25MB/s per second (thats about 200mbit/s and upload speed of atleast 5MB/s (haven't got a good enough pipe to test anything faster).
The other option i was going to try is to setup OpenVPN and see how that goes, however i need to find a good tutorial as it's fairly complicated to setup.
So why is it so slow? How can i test to see where the bottleneck is? How can i make it faster :D