Self Hosted VPN Users - Noob Question

[636_Castle]

I decided I'd get fancy last night and purchase a little Raspberry Pi machine to host my own VPN, since my mobile phone service provider has started throttling all bandwidth using video streaming sites such as YouTube and Netflix which forces a 480p playback. VPNs stop this quite well.

 

I'm great at following directions, but otherwise completely clueless as to how this is working from a technological standpoint.

 

My PC which is connected to my router is working great! I lose roughly 10 Mbps of download speed when I'm connected, but that's still over 200 Mbps which I can't complain about.

 

My mobile devices on the other hand....not so much. I was under the impression VPNs are limited by the slowest connection. So if my mobile service provider gives me 70 Mbps down, and my home ISP gives me 250 Mbps down, my devices would connect at 70 Mbps down - maybe with a 10ish loss like my PC.

 

It appears I may be wrong. I'm pulling 10 Mbps down, which is the upload speed of my server. Something tells me this is normal, but I'm too bummed out to believe it's true after spending hours of my night setting this up. It's not bad. Certainly 10 Mbps is enough to stream 1080p video to my phone, but it's not worth keeping on 24/7.

 

Does something sound wrong here? Also, why isn't my local PC affected by the upload limit? I'm not hosting the server from my PC, it connects just like a client does. Only difference is it's connected via an Ethernet cable to my router.

 

Something else I've noticed is when I connect my phone and tablet to my home wifi network I can pull 50-60 down. When I disconnect from it and use LTE, I pull 10 down. All on my VPN. Of course I can get over 200 with the VPN disabled on wifi. What gives? Is this normal?

Edited February 14, 2017 by 636_Castle

[636_Castle]

Figured it out. My mobile devices are just experiencing overhead from having to decrypt my VPN client keys. Someone on Reddit was able to answer this.