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Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by pimeys on Sunday August 26, 2018 @12:50PM (#17846673)
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 setup. Now I have IPv6 through the VPN, all traffic from the house is routed through anonymous servers and I've had no problems with the connection dropping. Very nice work here.
Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by zamadatix on Sunday August 26, 2018 @03:26PM (#17847419)
> 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.

Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by pimeys on Sunday August 26, 2018 @03:31PM (#17847437)
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.

Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by corybrown on Sunday August 26, 2018 @01:41PM (#17846894)
What router do you have that lets you run wire guard?
Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by aaronmdjones on Sunday August 26, 2018 @01:50PM (#17846938)
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).

Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by ac29 on Sunday August 26, 2018 @01:49PM (#17846935)
You can run it on Ubiquiti's EdgeRouters: https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/Release-WireGuard-f...
Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by technofiend on Sunday August 26, 2018 @08:51PM (#17848768)
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

Nothing against vyatta/edgeos but since getting into edge cases requires command line anyway, you can just start there without too much trouble.

Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by IcePic on Monday August 27, 2018 @03:15AM (#17849920)
You just get to port Go to octeons during that weekend then. But if you do, I will be happy! \o/
Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by dogecoinbase on Sunday August 26, 2018 @07:18PM (#17848458)
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.)

Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by pimeys on Sunday August 26, 2018 @01:50PM (#17846939)
Omnia Turris runs it fine.
Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by wyldfire on Sunday August 26, 2018 @01:05PM (#17846730)
Are there commercial providers?
Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by pimeys on Sunday August 26, 2018 @01:09PM (#17846749)
Yep.

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/

A bit less servers. No need to give email. /64 subnet for IPv6.

Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by heh on Sunday August 26, 2018 @02:33PM (#17847155)
Mullvad also doesn't require an email, and you can mail them cash anonymously.
Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by pimeys on Sunday August 26, 2018 @02:44PM (#17847197)
Yep. And the service with both of these is top notch.
Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by nickik on Sunday August 26, 2018 @03:10PM (#17847318)
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.
Re:WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious ad... by jensv on Sunday August 26, 2018 @01:07PM (#17846737)