Hi, I understand that when you use a VPN, your internet speed slows down. That makes sense. But if too many people in a given region start using VPN, would the internet speed be affected for those not using a VPN? TIA!
Been using VPN for years and haven’t experienced more than just a few mbps in speed. It really depends on how far of a server you choose and what speed does your ISP provides you. A few MBPS for security and privacy is totally worth it IMO
Yes, I have noticed that my internet is a little slower with certain VPNs, but I don’t think it makes sense that if many people use VPNs in a region it affects the speed of those who don’t use them.
nope, this doesnt affect people who are not using VPN
Thanks. Yes, I get that. Recently, someone told me that when too many people start using VPN in a given region, it affects the internet speed for others too, even if they’re not using a VPN. Which, to me, is absurd and doesn’t make sense.
Which VPN are you using?
Doesn’t make sense to me as well, but someone in the replies tell me that it might.
It makes sense. For example your ISP may have 2 connections to the internet, one is used only for YouTube and other is used for everything else, now after you connect to a VPN, all your data (including youtube) goes to the second connection and if everyone does the same it may overload your isp because their load balancing doesn’t work anymore. That was a very rough example
If more people start using the internet (VPN or not) at the same time in the same region it would slow down. The reason being that most ISPs oversell bandwidth. But I haven’t heard of a scenario where VPN usage specifically would slow it down.
For speed and reliability, I use residential proxy. But someone told me that the widespread use of VPN cause latency issues even for non-VPN users and I didn’t think that to be true. Apparently, that might be the case, as some pointed out in the replies.