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Having been running WireGuard in my router for a couple of months now I have to say it's just the first ever VPN to offer no bandwidth penalty and a very easy s

• wyldfire 8y ago
  Are there commercial providers?
  • jensv 8y ago
    Yes, see https://mullvad.net/en/guides/category/wireguard/ https://mullvad.net/en/guides/category/wireguard/
  • pimeys 8y ago
    Yep. https://mullvad.net/en/ https://mullvad.net/en/ Many servers. Can pay with bitcoin. You only get a randomized account number. /128 subnet for IPv6. https://www.azirevpn.com/ https://www.azirevpn.com/ A bit less servers. No need to give email. /64 subnet for IPv6.
    • heh 8y ago
      Mullvad also doesn't require an email, and you can mail them cash anonymously.
      • pimeys 8y ago
        Yep. And the service with both of these is top notch.
        • nickik 8y ago
          Talked to some of the guys at a conference. They are really nice and they are doing a lot with Wireguard, helping if financially as well.
• sealthedeal 8y ago
  do you have a write up of this and how you configured your router, etc?
• corybrown 8y ago
  What router do you have that lets you run wire guard?
  • ac29 8y ago
    You can run it on Ubiquiti's EdgeRouters: https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/Release-WireGuard-for-EdgeRouter/td-p/1904764 https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/Release-WireGuard-f...
    • dogecoinbase 8y ago
      To be fair, then your bandwidth penalty just comes from something else. (I run a large number of ERs, mostly because you can easily run so much other software on the hardware -- but they're not great devices if you need performance or reliability. "You get what you pay for" absolutely applies.)
    • technofiend 8y ago
      And if you're feeling like a fun weekend hacking project it's also available on OpenBSD which runs on the EdgeRouter including support for the onboard packet accelerator. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=152712417729497&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=152712417729497&w=2 Nothing against vyatta/edgeos but since getting into edge cases requires command line anyway, you can just start there without too much trouble.
      • IcePic 8y ago
        You just get to port Go to octeons during that weekend then. But if you do, I will be happy! \o/
  • aaronmdjones 8y ago
    OpenWRT has WireGuard support, so also, every router you can put an OpenWRT image on. EDIT: I'm using it on my Netgear WNDR3800, and my grandmother's Sitecom WLR-4000 (which is a rebranded Sitecom WL-351, which is a rebranded EnGenius ESR9850).
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• zamadatix 8y ago
  > I have to say it's just the first ever VPN to offer no bandwidth penalty By protocol design it incurs a 4%-~50% (1500 byte and 64 byte packets respectively) bandwidth penalty over the internet due to headers. The encryption of the payload is extremely fast though.
  • pimeys 8y ago
    Of course I was exaggerating a bit. But... I've been trying to setup OpenVPN for ages, and it always eats about 60-80% of the bandwidth. No matter what I try with it, I just cannot get the full speed of my internet connection through the protocol. With Wireguard I haven't noticed any difference. fast.com is as fast with or without WireGuard. I have to say it's the first time in my life I see it working this easily.
• ericnyamu 8y ago
  Am assuming you get your full bandwidth when you do a speedtest via wireguard ?