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Hey, I had a question about passing all your traffic through a home VPN: What does your internet plan look like? Asking because in some places ISPs are such that the download speed (which is what is on all their marketing material) is good, but upload speed is really shitty. Downloading a 500 MB file takes far less time than uploading it.
It's a '1.5gigabit' fiber connection from Telus, in the middle of a city.
VPN's can further limit your bandwidth. Encryption and decryption require a lot of processing overhead. Something to be mindful of if you're self hosting a VPN. I think my Mikrotik (dual core ARM) maxes out around 250 Mbps.