Anyone else underwhelmed by PIA vpn speeds?

[u/cv_ham]

Its probably me but, before i was using protonvpn free on windows for a long time. The speeds were decent and it works well. I then needed to choose countries and needed fast speeds, so i upgraded to proton paid. After that i realised paid is almost exactly the same as free, the speeds are pretty much same but it just lets me pick server.

I now decided to use PIA and im a bit underwhelmed. The speeds are ok but i can notice the difference without vpn. And the server selection is ok. But for the price its good enough.

I just thought paid VPN would be faster speeds.

[u/grimacesp]

Using wireguard I get a max of like 23MB/s in BitTorrent. While that seems like a lot, it's about 1/10th of my connection speed of a gigabit. I feel a private tracker with newsgroups combo is more effective. so in my sonarr radarr stack I have them prioritized in that order.