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With hardware acceleration.
Computing power isn't just a general quantity. Networking devices have dedicated chips in them to perform various parts of processes. (Encryption, decryption, encoding, decoding, compression, decompression, etc.)
That's hardware acceleration. There are chips that are super efficient and powerful but they can only do that one thing.
That's fine if you know exactly what the device is going to be for, so you can put in the exact chips it needs to do only what it needs to do.
Makes sense Well explained thanks. I guess I'll find a dedicated VPN router
I think GL.inet has tiny ones you can use.
gl.iNet definitely shows your expected VPN speed (OpenVPN and Wireguard) on their product pages, which is great.
Still, if you need gigabit speeds, those devices usually can not provide that.
I checked GL.inet is not available where I live