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Hi Dave,

Yes, ExpressVPN has changed its program.

I contacted customer service and they said that OpenSense is no longer supported (or at least, it's supposedly possible to use it, but it's not supported).

I guess I chose the wrong VPN and I'll have to buy another one.

Were you able to install another VPN within OpenSense?

François

Hello everyone,

A complete beginner's mistake. I was running speed tests on my PC, which was connected to the TopTon mini-PC. That is, until I realized my network cable was plugged into the docking station. And that's what was limiting the speed.

Now I'm getting the expected speed.

Sorry for the trouble, and thanks to everyone who replied.

François

Thanks for the quick response.

Point 10. The CPU is sufficient because with Linux Mint on USB I reach 500 Mbps. Now, I don't know if OPNsense adds anything that makes performance more demanding.

Point 13. I don't have ZenArmor or Suricata installed. I installed OPNsense and that's it. So, the bare minimum.

Point 22. I first tried it in a virtual machine with Proxmox. Then I installed OPNsense bare metal. I gained absolutely no speed.

Perhaps there's a difference between FreeBS and Linux that means the hardware isn't managed, I don't know?

Hello everyone,

I'm new to this and completely lost with my setup. I need your help.

I bought a TopTon mini-PC with an Intel N150 (Alderlake ULX) quad-cores processor and Intel i226-v Ethernet cards.

My internet service provider is currently Proximus Fiber with 500 Mbps download and upload speeds.

If I connect my PC directly to the Proximus box, I get the correct speed.

I initially installed Proxmox and OpenSense on my mini-PC. When I run speed tests, I only get around 200 Mbps (speedtest-cli ou iperf3).

After searching forums and trying different solutions, I haven't been able to get it working properly.

I tried disabling hardware checksum offload, hardware TCP segmentation offload, and hardware large receive offload, but nothing changed. I also disabled ASPM in the BIOS. I added a few tunables in OPNsense. But still nothing.

I also tried network card passthrough, but again, no improvement.

Finally, I wiped everything and installed OPNsense directly on the mini-PC, thinking that virtualization might be the cause. But no.

As a last resort, I booted Linux Mint in Live Session mode from a USB drive, and there I got a speed of 500 Mbps.

I don't understand why I'm being throttled as soon as I install OPNsense. I thought it was a powerful tool, but I can't even achieve a decent speed.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance to everyone.

François

Bonjour,

J'essaie de configurer ExpressVPN mais je bloque sur certaines options que je ne sais pas où mettre.

Dans le fichier .ovpn téléchargé j'ai par exemple mssfix 1200. Dans l'interface web de configuration, il y a juste une case à cocher mais impossible d'y mettre une valeur. Où peut-on mettre cette valeur ?

Il y a aussi des options comme sndbuff 524288 et rcvbuf 542288 que je ne trouve pas.
Les options persist-key et persist-tun sont aussi introuvables.
L'option pull j'imagine que c'est activé par défaut par OPNsense car il présent l'option route-nopull.
Je ne comprends pas non plus l'option comp-lzo no et où la mettre.
Et enfin, il reste key-direction 1 que je ne vois pas non plus où mettre.

Je suis nouveau dans OPNsense, alors je ne sais pas encore beaucoup de choses.
Si quelqu'un peut m'aider, ça me ferait très plaisir.

Merci.
François