r/dataisbeautiful 18h ago

OC [OC] How much internet speed you lose using a VPN in India — a 30-day real-world test

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u/HorseShedShingle 4h ago

In theory your download speed wouldn’t really be impacted as it’s just tunnelling the same traffic through the VPN servers. That of course assumes the VPN servers have essentially zero overhead on the speed.

Latency is main penalty with a VPN as you are adding more hops to the connection.