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I've been using WireGuard on my router for the last 6 months, and it's fantastic. I get the full speed of my line through it, when OpenVPN was only giving me 20
by robotmay 8y ago
I've been using WireGuard on my router for the last 6 months, and it's fantastic. I get the full speed of my line through it, when OpenVPN was only giving me 20%. Because of the great plugin they have for Vyatta I'm going to be looking at using it for some stuff at work now too.
- Improvotter 8y agoOnly 20%? How did you test this? I'm currently using OpenVPN but am looking at Wireguard.
- robotmay 8y agoBy running speed tests through both tunnels. I was getting ~7Mbps over OpenVPN and get ~35Mbps over WireGuard to the same server :) I believe the speed difference is primarily related to the processing power of my router. WireGuard is seemingly much quicker because it's less intensive on the router.
- exhilaration 8y agoHow did you install it on your router? I'm assuming this isn't a throwaway $30 consumer router?
- rhblake 8y agoI use it on an EdgeRouter Lite 3 which is about $99. See: https://github.com/Lochnair/vyatta-wireguard https://github.com/Lochnair/vyatta-wireguard https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/Release-WireGuard-for-EdgeRouter/td-p/1904764 https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/Release-WireGuard-f... (discussion)
- poizan42 8y agoThe EdgeRouter Lite 3 also happens to be one of the few generally available Mips64 platforms (Cavium OCTEON CN5020). Actually I have just ordered its big brother EdgeRouter Lite 4. It costs double as much, but it also packs a quad-core 1GHz OCTEON CN7130.
- robotmay 8y agoI'm running an EdgeRouter X myself, which is actually not too far off your price at ~£50. Fantastic little router, great for home use.