Poor VPN speed

[jon1331]

Hi,

On gig1 service with hub 5 and now subbed to 4 supposedly fast vpn's (proton, surfshark, nord & express) but the best result I've had is 230mbps on surfshark. Native ISP is 1143 confirmed with samknows reslspeed. Yesterday bought TP-Link AXE75 and connected up to modem mode but only got similar or worse with all VPN on and off was down on router mode max 853. I know the 2.5 gig port has issue. I had an unmanaged switch so had connection problems. So got a managed switch coming that can disable EEE. But Ive read this still only allows gig traffic through the 2.5 gig port. Need Virgin to fix firmware. I'm still on the dodgy version :(.

Any advice on how to increase my VPN speed? Support has got me to try things but nothing has worked so far. Always 1 VPN at once and to nearest Manchester server.

Thanks in advance.

[jon1331]

Installed a Netgear managed switch in between a Netgear unmanaged switch last night with IEEE disabled but 2.5 gig port still down :(.

Also on SamKnows with only laptop wired to hub 5 wireless turned off I could get 1143 to hub but maxed out at just under 200 to device on mums Dell with gig port and 95 on my dell with 100 port which I understand for mine but not mums :(.

[jon1331]

Got a new desktop PC with 2.5gbE LAN port on the board running win 11 pro and just got this with my hub 5's 2.5gbE port connected to my managed 2.5gbE Netgear switch with IEEE disabled connected to a 2.5gbE unmanaged Netgear switch :

 Happy Days......

 

[jon1331]

And got even better:

 Result!

[jon1331]

And with Surfshark on:

[jon1331]

And my current 2yr sub Proton in comparison 😞

 Swapping when Proton runs out in May!

[jon1331]

Still can only get 220 down on my Pixel 6 with surfshark on though 😞