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VPNs work by wrapping one IP packet with another IP packet. What you're seeing is the network stack counting each VPN packet twice: the 1st time when it arrives, and the 2nd time when the "unwrapped" packet is sent back into the network stack for delivery to your app.

This is just a VPN artifact - the bandwidth "on the wire" is not really doubled.

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