Anyone had experience with Surfshark? Any issues with Z8?
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Anyone had experience with Surfshark? Any issues with Z8?
what is your issues?
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I have surfshark... My problem is very low speed.
surfshark off - 120
surfshark on - 10
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I have surfshark... My problem is very low speed.
That difference is huge, did you experiment with multiple servers and countries? Always this bad result?
I am also considering NordVPN. Like the Surfshark pricing, limitless devices and reviews. Worried about speed on Z8
I have NordVPN on Z8, and because I liked it so much I extended the subscription to last many years when they offered a big discount on their website, which I checked daily for many weeks.
When I do the math it means I pay approx 1,70 euro per month now (max 5 devices) on NordVPN.
Speed usually up to 25MB/s per device.
I see the current biggest surfshark discount saves 82% which results in $1,79 per month. (not includes the extra privacy addon they offer for $0,89 per month)
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Have any one got vpn on your. Router what setting do you use please
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That difference is huge, did you experiment with multiple servers and countries? Always this bad result?
I have NordVPN on Z8, and because I liked it so much I extended the subscription to last many years when they offered a big discount on their website, which I checked daily for many weeks.
When I do the math it means I pay approx 1,70 euro per month now (max 5 devices) on NordVPN.
Speed usually up to 25MB/s per device.
I see the current biggest surfshark discount saves 82% which results in $1,79 per month. (not includes the extra privacy addon they offer for $0,89 per month)
Yes tested with several servers and the problem remains.
I only can get 50mb if I change the protocol to Ikev2.
Z8 hardware limitations?
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Z8 hardware limitations?
Highly unlikely, ethernet port has 1000mbit support and for the CPU handling this amount of traffic is only a small task.
Perhaps the shark app has some performance issue inside? Did you try the VPN subscription on other devices? Linux/Apple/Windows PC/laptops? Same throughput there?
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Highly unlikely, ethernet port has 1000mbit support and for the CPU handling this amount of traffic is only a small task.
Perhaps the shark app has some performance issue inside? Did you try the VPN subscription on other devices? Linux/Apple/Windows PC/laptops? Same throughput there?
Like I already said, I have 120 mb service.
Xiaomi Mi 9 with surfshark connect with the same config of Z8 (ikev2 protocol)
Mi 9 is connect by wifi... 102 mb
Z8 is connect by cable... Around 40 mb
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Yes. I understood that. I tried to explain that on the Z8 the "shark app" might be a specific "fork" with a performance issue not seen on other "platforms"/"packages".
And first you say Z8 was 10, now you say 40. And it is not clear if the 102 on Mi9 is with VPN on or off. But doesn't matter much as I just tried to give some possible direction of what might cause this.
If I were you I would contact surfshark support because there is no reason why Formuler hardware/software might be the root-cause for what you see here.
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Yes. I understood that. I tried to explain that on the Z8 the "shark app" might be a specific "fork" with a performance issue not seen on other "platforms"/"packages".
And first you say Z8 was 10, now you say 40. And it is not clear if the 102 on Mi9 is with VPN on or off. But doesn't matter much as I just tried to give some possible direction of what might cause this.
If I were you I would contact surfshark support because there is no reason why Formuler hardware/software might be the root-cause for what you see here.
Z8 get 10 with utp protocol (cable connection)
Z8 get around 40 with ikev2 protocol (cable connection)
Z8 without vpn get around 120 mb
Mi 9 get 102 mb with Vpn connect with ikev2 protocol (wireless connection)
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I already did
They told me to change DNS... But no improvement until now.
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I already did
They told me to change DNS... But no improvement until now.
Please let me know if you fixed your issue. I'm having a few issues too. Thanks
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Surfshark support got back to me with this advice:
Surfshark (Surfshark)
Feb 10, 11:57 EET
Hello,
Thank you for your response.
A simple protocol change could fix the speed issues that many users are experiencing.
You can do that by going into our application Settings->Advanced->Protocol and change it to OpenVPN(UDP).
Furthermore, you could also change the data encryption to Chacha20Poly1305 instead of AES-256-GCM in the Settings->Advanced->Data encryption.
We also have a 30-day money-back guarantee that you could always opt for if you dislike our service.
Has any Surfshark user tried these steps?
Didn't work for me...
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I just noticed Nord has a nice discount (70%) currently: link
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I just noticed Nord has a nice discount (70%) currently: link
And download speed with nordvpn is better than surfshark?
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I have never tried surfshark. Normally I can get 25MB/s per NordVPN client.
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- Official Post
I did test with nord vpn and posted this in some thread.
Here the screenshot again.
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I don't think you can fault Nord always have offers so not so expensive
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I suggest to use less famous free VPN for Android........don't use the most popular because their free servers are to busy.
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I have surfshark... My problem is very low speed.
surfshark off - 120
surfshark on - 10
I had similar speed concerns with Surfshark. I looked up at bit and found Ivacy VPN awarded the fastest VPN award for 2019 so I subscribed to their 7 day trial and found the service to be very commendable when comes to speed, absolutely no speed drops.
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I have found surfshark. Found it fantastic. With wireguard 5 star
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Surfshark is now available. On market. For you to load if you want
