I am a WINDOWS Norton 360 newbie having installed it just last week & I am noticing already that my Norton VPN speed is quite low compared to my regular 3GB ISP speed from Bell Canada. However, the Norton VPN speed can drop as low as less than 100MB in the evenings. During the daytime, it usually stays well above 100MB. I have been testing & measuring my internet connection speed by using SPEEDTEST.NET from Ookla. My web pages appear to be loading & updating at a somewhat slower pace than normal but my speed tests on Ookla all say that the Norton VPN speed is very slow compared to my Bell ISP 3GB speed. How come? Will I be able to achieve anything close to my Bell ISP 3GB speed or is it that Norton VPN speed is just far too slow & needs updating to a higher level? Will Norton be upgrading their VPN speeds in future as well because clients are now today using much faster ISP speeds than in the past? The slow Norton VPN speeds are disappointing to me to say the least. So how can I achieve faster internet speeds while using Norton VPN today if possible? Thanks for reading my post & I hope for a productive solution reply to my quandary. Cheerio.
I had to do the same thing, Norton VPN reminded me of 'dial up speed'.
I turned off the Norton VPN switched to a competitor which improved my test speed x 10. Norton need to improve their network to be competitive.
Depending on what you are trying to do with your network connection, you may not need a VPN when using a properly secured home network. Here is a good Norton Blog article on the question. https://us.norton.com/blog/privacy/do-you-need-a-vpn-at-home
Hi Peter > Yes I will try out your suggestion to try the alternative VPN providers that Norton also lists to see if I can get a big VPN speed improvement. Thanks for the comment & I hope it works better as my internet speed should come much closer to my ISP speed of 3GB from Bell Canada without using a VPN. I have tried a few other VPNs but they also have very slow speeds. Since I now have Norton 360 already, I am going to stick with it but I will try to get a faster speed if possible whilst using Norton. The reason for the slow speeds may indeed be a software issue as you mentioned. Thanks for all the info Peter. Cheerio.
Hi Steve > Yes the Norton VPN speed is extremely slow so I am going to try PETER WEB'S suggestion which is listed below the 2 entries about this issue. He says to try the alternative VPN providers listed on Norton rather than letting the system calculate it. I will see if it helps. Try it out for yourself too. Let me know if it solves your speed dilemma. Cheerio.
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Try manually choosing a virtual location country rather than letting the VPN Auto choose a location.
Having suggested this, there have been some users here that we were never able to diagnose why they had such drastic speed losses with the Norton VPN. Some had used other VPN's with no great speed losses. The only suggestion in the end was that there seems to be some conflict with the specific combination of software and hardware on those specific systems.
I have the same problem very slow vpn under 50 Mbs for both upload and download.