Wireguard vs Ssh tunnel speed transfer

by Solene 4 years ago

OpenBSD ◆ xterm-256color ◆ ksh 5739 views

In this “video” I create a 30 MB file from random data, then I transfer it through wireguard through a TCP connection done with netcat and pipe to /dev/null, the dd output gives the actual speed and time of the transfer.

Then I use a reverse ssh tunnel to allow port 10000 on the remote server to reach my local port 10000 where netcat is listening to and I run the same dd command with the same file to measure ssh tunnelling performance.

Wireguard speed: 1207 kB/s - 25.445 seconds to complete + high latency over the ping
Ssh tunnel speed: 1468 kB/s - 20.928 seconds to complete + no latency

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