ER7206 VPN speed capped at 100Mbps
Both on the router's site and on the client's site there is a 900Mbps fiber internet connexion. The VPN (L2TP over IPSEC) however never goes faster than 110Mbps. I have been working on that for days now and can't find a reason for it.
The specs sheet for the ER7206 states that encrypted L2TP can transfer up to 334.6 Mbps (https://www.tp-link.com/fr/business-networking/omada-router-wired-router/er7206/#specifications).
I know I'm not running the latest firmware but the release notes of the latest releases do not mention VPN.
I do not have any bandwitdth control that I know of activated.
If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be really grateful.
Thanks for your time guys.
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What's the upload and download speed for both server and client?
You should consider if it is a speed throttle of the upload of one side. Download speed does not matter but the upload is crucial for a server.
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The answer is simple, you don't get more on the ER7206v1, the router doesn't have Hardware Offload, I had some ER7206v1 for 2-3 years ago but replaced them with the ER605V2 which had a much faster IPsec VPN, the ER7206v2 would probably have been a better router if you want have high VPN speed.
you have looked at the specs of v2 and they are much faster than v1
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@MR.S thanks for your reply. You were right, I was looking at the V2 datasheet, my bad.
Yet, when looking at the V1 datasheet here : https://www.tp-link.com/fr/support/download/tl-er7206/v1/ is says 202.3 Mbps for encrypted L2TP VPN. Any idea why I can hardly reach half of that ?
Thanks for your help.
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when I had that router I tried everything possible, getting it over 100Mbps turned out to be difficult. not only was it slow but the speed also went up and down up and down.when copuing file, i mostly used Site to site ipsec and file copying through vpn didn't go so well, i switched to ER605v2 and the speed went up to 250 + - Mbps. I don't know how it worked with L2TP because I didn't use it.
so the ipsec specs on the ER7206v1 are wrong.
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@MR.S well, thanks for your help. I'll look into the V2 version then.
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you should consider the ER707-M2 which is a better choice in my opinion. here is comparison.
https://www.tp-link.com/en/compare/?type=smb&typeId=5802&productIds=67022%2C79606
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@MR.S will look into that, thank you !
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What's the upload and download speed for both server and client?
You should consider if it is a speed throttle of the upload of one side. Download speed does not matter but the upload is crucial for a server.
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I have er7206 v1 also interested.
What is best performance vpn router then?
Is it er7206 v2? Or er707m2?
Any other alternatives in similar price range newer than this?
I read lots of reviews which complain overall support and reliability of er707m2 is worse than er7206.
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I haven't tested the ER7206v2 but I had an ER7206v1 and it was tragically slow, the ER707-m2 would have been my preferred choice if I were you. if you compare the specs, the ER707-M2 is faster and has more RAM.
I have two ER707-M2 and they have worked well except for a bad firmware from TP-Link which brought down the network on both routers. I have not tested with L2TP, but if you look in the comparison, you will see that the ER707-M2 is much faster.
https://www.tp-link.com/en/compare/?type=smb&typeId=5802&productIds=79606%2C67022
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