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Great news. I started using Wireguard instead of OpenVPN and won't look back. Actually it was easy to set up even with DKMS kernel modules but having it in main
by ofrzeta 8y ago
Great news. I started using Wireguard instead of OpenVPN and won't look back. Actually it was easy to set up even with DKMS kernel modules but having it in mainline will be great.
- dtx1 8y agoDo you only use it to connect remotely into your home network or are there VPN Services for wireguard available?
- bubblethink 8y agoAzire gives free WG access while in beta
- apazgo 8y agoI second Azirevpn.com! Great speeds
- mick87 8y agoI use the mullvad VPN service for wireguard. They currently have 44 wireguard servers active around the world.
- bjoli 8y agoI second this. I remember reading an interview with one of the mullvad staff saying "y dream openVPN config would be [insert more or less verbatim the wireguard spec], but due to the nature of openVPN that either won't happen or will take a long time". They were quick at adopting wireguard :) They are very knowledgeable and spend a lot of effort in securing their VPN. I contacted them about what I thought was a bug, and got a very thorough answer about why mullvad behaved like that, what kind of threat it mitigated, and how I got the behaviour I wanted together with things I could do to keep safe (which was to update the kernel). Within 6 hours. I am a very happy customer.
- simias 8y agoCan you explain what makes it better than venerable old OpenVPN?
- phaer 8y agoMostly speed, a more minimal configuration syntax, more modern crypto. OpenVPN works fine, is quite portable and runs in user space. It's quite a lot slower, but is well-tested and can be managed with a Certificate Authority in organisation where that's desired.
- cm2187 8y agoI presume speed on linux? Otherwise doesn't wireguard suffer from the same peformance drawback than OpenVPN on windows (running in user mode)?
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- Hello71 8y agoOpenVPN is quite configurable, not as much as IPsec, but still a lot, and (from what I hear) has quite a bit of code bloat. I believe that userspace WireGuard has better performance than OpenVPN.
- cm2187 8y agoMy understanding (and experience) is that OpenVPN on windows is structurally capped at about 5-10 MB/s. I was curious of how that compares to WireGuard.
- neilalexander 8y agoPerformance issues with OpenVPN on Windows arise out of the inefficiencies of the TUN/TAP driver, not the OpenVPN software itself.