hey how's it going everybody welcome back and why does a vpn slow down your internet i'm going to
get into this and how you can optimize uh your vpn so that you can get the best speeds possible
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uh if you didn't know of course when you're connecting to a vpn let's say uh this part right
here is the inner or this little dot here is the internet okay so this is the internet that you're
trying to connect to okay and let's say you're in the uk now without a vpn you're connecting
straight from your isp servers uh straight to the internet so you know that minimizes uh any loss
in in speed or anything like that yo you'll get your best speeds when you're getting when you're
connecting straight to the internet without a vpn but of course let's say you're connecting
to denmark a server in denmark and you're based in the uk instead of going straight to the internet
instead of your connection going straight to the internet you're gonna have to first take a detour
go to denmark and then connect to the internet so this is going this this distance right here
will be will mean the decrease of your speed and the increase of your latency or ping
now the further you go the slower your connection and that's really just the general rule
so if instead of denmark i'm connecting all the way to turkey for example and then returning
all the way to the internet that creates more distance and that's going to it's going to work
the same let's say if i'm in the uk right here and i'm connecting all the way to canada and
then returning to connect to the internet this is a longer distance so naturally you'll get
worse ping much higher ping slower uh download speed and of course worse uh upload speed so
all around that is the general rule so of course these three suggestions for vpns will prove to
be some of the best vpns you can use and usually your decrease in speed will not be more than 5 to
15 percent with these vpns they work very well so if you're going to optimize it you know make
sure your chosen server is as close as possible to let's say if i'm trying to unblock hulu for
example or an american netflix library and i'm connected to uh let's say i'm in the uk okay
now instead of connecting all the way to the west coast let's say in seattle or san francisco or la
it's better for me if i connected to new york or miami or uh you know any of the east coast
uh states here rather than all the way to the west coast so of course on the other hand
if i'm in japan okay it's better for me to connect to los angeles rather than connecting to uh the uh
east coast so yeah it depends on your location and uh that's usually how it works so make sure
you're selecting the closest servers possible uh to your physical location another thing is uh you
want to make sure you're using the right protocol so if you if you're using any tcp variants
of let's say openvpn let's say i'm using openvpn tcp naturally you're the the the way that protocol
works is that it offers more security but at the cost of speed so this is when you know you're
really not going to have a good time it'll cut your speed and by about 40 to 50 percent
so make sure you're using the right protocols well regularly when you're using automatic
uh it'll for the most part uh get automated to use open vpn udp or
lightweight udp lightweight udp is the proprietary expressvpn protocol
um so that's one thing of course in nordvpn you're going to make sure that you're using
the nord links protocol which will be the quickest and most powerful protocol uh another thing for
example here in nord vpn you want to make sure that you're using the right servers so
i would not recommend for example let's say you're using openvpn udp
if you're using some of the double vpn servers which are still pretty good and still pretty quick
uh or the some of the dedicated ip servers or peer-to-peer servers you might not get uh you
know the best speeds as opposed to when you're using uh nord links servers so yeah of course you
don't get access to the other servers with nord links but with nord links you'll be getting the
best servers of course another thing for example make sure that obfuscator servers are not on um
or if you're using a a dns that's getting giving you worse speeds so make sure that this is off
and make sure if you're using a custom dns make sure that it's a good dns and fast dns of course
of course office kd servers only work with open vpn tcp so unless you have open vpn tcp
activated you won't be able to access obfuscated servers so just make sure that you're using
nord links and with surf shark you want to make sure that the protocol you're using is the wire
guard protocol which is just like nord links it's a true wire guard protocol and it's super powerful
and super quick so this is how you can minimize the uh the the decrease in speed and increase
in ping uh when it comes to your internet and how you know you can maximize your efficiency and
performance in vpn performance uh of course other things that could be slowing down your internet
is your wi-fi maybe your router is a little bit further from your device so if you're on pc
make sure that you're using a lan cable that will give you the best speeds possible
um you know there there's i think the best uh lan cables or ethernet cables cables are up to
cat 7 now so you know it's better than cat 4 and cat 5 and cat 6 so if you can get yourself a high
quality cat 7 ethernet cable it'll definitely uh give you better speeds so that's one another thing
other things you could possibly do to make sure your speeds are good
is contact your isp if you're having trouble with your internet speed it could be that your isp
could be throttling your connection for one reason or another or you might have to get a different
package so yeah these these are some of the most common reasons that your speed could be slowing
down or maybe they'll assign you a new ip address that'll give you better speeds so you make sure
you do contact them to make sure the uh problem is resolved so that'll be it for this video
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guys very much for watching and i'll see you guys in the next one have a wonderful day