I am currently connecting to a US university VPN during my stay in a foreign country.
After a lot of manual tweaking (creating my own connection in /etc/ppp/peers and modifying ip routes), I finally managed to make it work.
However, it is ridiculously slow.
If I connect via my normal internet connection (actually PPPoE, sits on ppp0), I get about 250 kB/s.
Via the VPN (on ppp1), I get about 2 kB/s.
On the VPN on Windows, I get about 50 kB/s.
Why this discrepancy?
Ironically, pings to my VPN server through my VPN take longer than pings going through my normal internet connection.
I can provide info from netstat or route or my VPN config if requested.
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