Bandwith capped to 30-40Mbps with Max Transit Duo

Product Discussion Pepwave MAX
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When I use the Pepwave Max Transit Duo it is capping the incoming WAN signal.
I have a 500Mbps fiber connected to the Pepwave.
I have a Speedfusion Cloud connection. All traffic is send to the SFC.

Same is on other locations at my customers. One has a 1000Mbs, an other a 200 Mbps. line
When connecting the Max transit the speed is capped at 30-40Mbps when doing a speedtest on a computer that is connected on the LAN from Pepwave.

Why is it capping?

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Transit Duo is rated for 60Mbps of encrypted VPN throughput or 100Mbps unencrypted.

Raw WAN to LAN speed rating is 400Mbps.

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I get 30-40Mbps, so that’s a bit lower than the specs you give.
I’m a bit of a noob with IT.
Is this the situation:
With bonding it lowers the average to the max VPN throughput. I have a 500Mbps line plus 2 4G simcards but this will be maxed to 60Mbps over the VPN tunnel.
So is it better to set it up as a failover to use the raw WAN speed (no problem if the max of that is 400Mbps) and only switch to the 2 4G sim cards when necessary?

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True and this could do with a little investigation

So the transit duo has three throughput ratings:

Raw routing throughput - how much bandwidth it can push through itself (Between the Wired wan and LAN + 4G connections and LAN) this number is 400Mbps

Encrypted VPN @ 60Mbps and unencrypted VPN @ 100Mbps - this is how much bandwidth it can encapsulate in a tunnel like that used for speedfusion cloud (with with or without encryption). I think Speedfusion cloud is unencrypted actually, but either way you should be able to get more throughput than the 30-40mbps you are seeing.

For raw bandwidth yes. What I would likely do though is use load balanced / failover direct over the wired (and 4G) wans for general internet traffic and then send important stuff (ie VoIP / video conferencing etc) over speedfusion cloud.

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