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Re:Warp – Mobile VPN by jedberg on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:24PM (#19547136)
It's only near you when you're at home though. This works around the world.
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Re:Warp – Mobile VPN by eximius on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:17PM (#19547737)
maybe works better. But I used mine hosted in the US while I was traveling abroad in the UAE. Worked fine. I often saw better service with it turned on.
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Re:Warp – Mobile VPN by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @07:28AM (#19552928)
Probably all depends. I tried to use my west coast US VPN in Australia and it was atrocious. I had to deploy to AWS Sydney instead.
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Re:Warp – Mobile VPN by broknbottle on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:32PM (#19547221)
wouldn't be that difficult to write a script that checks geoip and launches a VPS in the region closest to your current devices public address. You could even create an iOS shortcut to allow you to do it from your iPhone
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Re:Warp – Mobile VPN by wmf on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:08PM (#19547648)
Classic HN comment. I predict that Warp will fail just as hard as Dropbox.
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Re:Warp – Mobile VPN by manigandham on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:06PM (#19548237)
Several billion-dollar businesses have been built doing things that "wouldn't be that difficult".

In this case, I agree that a single VPS is usually enough for most but never underestimate the market power of making things simpler and faster.

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Re:Warp – Mobile VPN by Sammi on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:50PM (#19547430)
What's the chance that there are a lot of unknown unknowns that you are not counting on?

I'd say that even the known unknown that ips and networks change routinely should make it a headache to maintain.

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Re:Warp – Mobile VPN by mr_toad on Monday April 01, 2019 @11:18PM (#19550769)
Not sure how hard it would be to install WireGuard fully unattended, I tried it with OpenVPN months ago and still haven’t completed it.

Once you get your script to work, you’d have to wait minutes for the VPN to spin up in a new region.

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Re:Warp – Mobile VPN by chrisbroadfoot on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:17AM (#19551066)
WireGuard is much easier to get configured than OpenVPN.

Check out algo: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

I think you could bake your configuration into a custom image, so it would be fast to get a VM started (about 30 secs on GCE, not sure about EC2).

If you use stopped instances, it's even faster.

(I work at GCP so know more about GCE than EC2)

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Re:Warp – Mobile VPN by 3xblah on Monday April 01, 2019 @08:20PM (#19549782)
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9736710

(Not implying anything, just providing a discussion point.)

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