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Re:Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speed... by eptcyka on Monday April 18, 2022 @04:36AM (#31068554)
What VPNs do compression? And don't speed tests normally use TLS?
Re:Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speed... by wheels on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:16AM (#31071830)
OpenVPN supports compression, and Private Internet Access used to enable it by default. I don't know if they do with Wireguard (now default). I also don't know if most bandwidth testers use TLS. I would actually assume not since it would add a lot of CPU on high bandwidth tests for not a lot of benefit. At any rate, at the time I noticed such was before using https had become nearly as widespread.