Speed comparison of OpenVPN and SSH tunneling

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amrogers3

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Morning everyone,

I am trying to figure out what is speed difference is between SSH and OpenVPN for connecting to home network from a remote location, i.e. hotel.

Only functionality I need is secure browsing of internet. I like to have 10+ tabs open (sockets) at a time usually doing research - if that makes a difference.

EDIT: my up is 18 Mb and down is 2.7 Mb
 
Why not just try both and see what performs better with your setups. Neither is overly difficult to deploy for a single user.
 
Grentz said:
Why not just try both and see what performs better with your setups. Neither is overly difficult to deploy for a single user.
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Also might depend on if he uses compression on the VPN

A lot of things will effect speed.


Do take note that the distance and route your traffic will take from point A to point B is out of your control and is results may vary.
 
/usr/home said:
How the hell is your up 18 when your down is 27??
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Lol, yep. That should be 18 down and 2.7 up.

Grentz said:
Why not just try both and see what performs better with your setups. Neither is overly difficult to deploy for a single user.
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Im running a mac with leopard 10.5. I looked into deploying OpenVPN on mac and DDWRT and it looks like a bear to install and configure.

If the speed between OpenVPN and an SSH tunnel is not very significant, I'll run with SSH.
 
I browse through an SSH tunnel more or less on a daily basis, with SSH connecting on port 443 (not proxied at the location :) ) I have a 5meg upload, and FTP'ing through the SSH tunnel maxes it out just fine.
 
How exactly is OpenVPN a bear on ddwrt - there's a step by step tutorial, and on the Mac you use Tunnelblick with the generated ovpn files. What is a "bear" about that?
 
The only concept that can take a bit to grasp with OpenVPN are the key pairs, but it is not overly difficult and there are a ton of step by step guides if you google.
 
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