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Re:Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using? by mrweasel on Monday February 25, 2019 @05:08AM (#19244475)
I doubt it would affect your speed much. How often are you able to utilise 1Gbps anyway?

Sure in theory you'd see a slow down, but given that most of the sites and service you use aren't able to deliver 1Gbps to you directly, the decrease in speed is most likely lower than you'd think.

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Re:Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using? by chrisper on Monday February 25, 2019 @05:21AM (#19244532)
>but given that most of the sites and service you use aren't able to deliver 1Gbps to you directly

You would be surprised how wrong this statement is.

Especially if you are a gamer, almost any platform can max out a Gbit connection easily.

Besides at those speeds you start seeing all kinds of issues (like OpenVPN implementation being very inefficient).

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