VPNs add a little bit of overhead to each packet. If the overhead causes your packet to exceed the threshold of what Starlink is capable of, then your packets will fragment and you'll have a bad time.
There's almost no basic VPN that is going to give you anywhere close to your stock speed. By using a VPN, you're adding more hops to the journey for every single bit of data, more routers it has to pass through to go from A to B - that slows down your data. The only thing punishing you is physics and internet logistics.
That is my understanding as well. I look at VPN as like having another person in the loop. That is, you send all your keystrokes to him and he re-types them into another computer. When he gets the response he forwards that on to you.
OK, that second person is actually another computer but even so it is another delay in the system.
could be the other way around? is the VPN punishing you for using starlink?
Lower your MTU
VPNs add a little bit of overhead to each packet. If the overhead causes your packet to exceed the threshold of what Starlink is capable of, then your packets will fragment and you'll have a bad time.
Lower the MTU and see if your speed returns.
There's almost no basic VPN that is going to give you anywhere close to your stock speed. By using a VPN, you're adding more hops to the journey for every single bit of data, more routers it has to pass through to go from A to B - that slows down your data. The only thing punishing you is physics and internet logistics.
That is my understanding as well. I look at VPN as like having another person in the loop. That is, you send all your keystrokes to him and he re-types them into another computer. When he gets the response he forwards that on to you.
OK, that second person is actually another computer but even so it is another delay in the system.
I had the same issues when I had Starlink.
https://protonvpn.com/support/increase-vpn-speeds/
Since prton also supports wireguard, it is in the vpn wireguard settings where you can change the MTU settings.
check this out ....https://safing.io/spn/
VPNs are notorious for dropping a huge amount of speed. I experience the same with just regular internet and a VPN.
I've tried different companies, all do the same. It isn't Starlink, it's the VPN.
VPN?
I have starling mobile
Hughes Net does something similar. There's a way to trick the Hughes net modem though if you tether two connections.
Did you say "Skynet"