2025-04-22, 11:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 2025-04-22, 01:19 PM by Duvel. Edited 7 times in total.)
You are lucky, I am the the happy owner of a pfSense firewall too, and configured for OpenVPN :-D
So I can further help you to debug this if needed.
Do you have a chip on the hardware that can be used to accelerate encryption?
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/late...ators.html
I dont. I have an 10yo old watchguard device that works pretty well, but I never tried to stream a movie through the VPN, no use for my case.
Really the first thing I would test at your place is just change the quality (ie bitrate) of the movie in the web client to the lower one (420 kbps) and see if that works. and if yes you pretty much have the answer on why it is failing with higher quality.
You should also check your pfsense CPU usage when streaming through the VPN with various bitrates, and check the openvpn logs in Status > System Logs, there should obviously be some hints lying there, of your previous failed attempts.
So I can further help you to debug this if needed.
Do you have a chip on the hardware that can be used to accelerate encryption?
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/late...ators.html
I dont. I have an 10yo old watchguard device that works pretty well, but I never tried to stream a movie through the VPN, no use for my case.
Really the first thing I would test at your place is just change the quality (ie bitrate) of the movie in the web client to the lower one (420 kbps) and see if that works. and if yes you pretty much have the answer on why it is failing with higher quality.
You should also check your pfsense CPU usage when streaming through the VPN with various bitrates, and check the openvpn logs in Status > System Logs, there should obviously be some hints lying there, of your previous failed attempts.