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Download on PPTP vpn much slower than upload. Need tips

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Dcshel

I am getting about 30mbps download when connecting to the PureVPN servers and around 140mbps upload. I am having to use PPTP because I must have a static public IP with 3 specific ports forwarded that I determine.

This speed is acceptable to operate my node, but I am wondering if there is something within my distro of Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS hat is making my connection slower on down than up? I worked for a couple of hours with the live chat support with PureVPN, but we got nowhere on this.Image link to version of Ubuntu attached so please don't close my question before I have opportunity to respondt

Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas? (please don't suggest other methods of VPN or other connection methods, I am stuck with having to connect with PPTP due to limits by VPN provider on static IP unless you know another good low-cost VPN service that can provide static IP and me configure my static ports to forward. Can't use random ports) . And I cannot test it on another PC because this is my only Linux box I have where I have to manually set up my PPTP connection to this PureVPN per their settings. I get great download and upload via OPENVPN through them, but I cannot use that protocol due to the fact they only offer PPTP with Static.

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Thomas Ward
PPTP is a very old protocol - it's not designed for 'high speeds' as much, and in fact is wholly insecure and should not be used except as a last resort. Unfortunately, you don't have much of a choice if you're using PPTP. VPN **in general** is slower, and it's likely your PPTP download speeds will be slower if there's a shared exfil server/endpoint handling many connections./
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