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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.

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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.

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