Private Internet Access vs ProtonVPN

"Verifiable" zero access infrastructure- Some sort of infrastructure where users can verify PIA's no logging claims.

I've been wanting to test-run a WireGuard VPN, to compare to ProtonVPN's IKEv2 connection. So, I purchased a 30-day subscription from Mullvad VPN, and connected my Samsung Note 10+.

Private Internet Access here. NordVPN isn't too bad either when it comes to speeds. I've used both here for years, and no, they aren't free.

As the OpenVPN wrapping of the wire packet sent to the remote side then typically goes below 1500 bytes - which most of the Internet infrastructure mostly tackles just fine. Otherwise, if the TUN packet itself is 1500 bytes, the OpenVPN wrapping increases the packet size enough so the packet often ends up being split into two packets - which impacts performance. Now mssfix is set to 1450, which is helping - but only for TCP packets, not UDP.