Hi all,

After migrating a VPS from FreeBSD to OpenBSD I noticed reduced networking 
performance. Both incoming and outgoing traffic seems to be 2-3 times slower on 
average. By testing 100MB file transfers I've mostly eliminated the following 
factors:

 - Protocol and ciphers (tested SCP, SFTP, FTP+TLS, HTTP, HTTPS)
 - Client software
 - Peer host
 - VM provider/platform

The easiest way to show and test this difference is as such:

 1. Install either FreeBSD 11.2 or OpenBSD 6.3 on a machine or VM
 2. Install curl, then `time curl -O 
http://download.thinkbroadband.com/100MB.zip`

On both my VPS provider and my own PC with VirtualBox VMs the difference is 
about 3x for the above test. Similar results happen when scp-ing a file to the 
machine.

Any ideas on the cause of this? Any additional tests or tweaks I could try?

Sijmen

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