Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad

Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by alistproducer2 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @10:29AM (#20793158)

I guess it depends on what you're using your VPN for, but I prefer to run my own VPN on a vps. I use vultr and pay $5/mo. I also get to host a collabra server for my nextcloud setup on the same server so it just makes economic sense to use a vps rather than paying $5/mo (or more) to just get a VPN and also not have control of my data.

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by TheChaplain on Sunday August 25, 2019 @12:09PM (#20793708)

There is a slight problem with this strategy if you are running a VPN to avoid tracking, as you have a static exit IP in your name which only you use.

VPN providers usually have multiple IP and often many users coming from the same one.

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by heyoni on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:07AM (#20793383)

Are you guys vpn’ing on your phones too? Do you just use the built in vpn connection profiles? I’m having trouble getting mine to stay connected to a plain old IPSec tunnel running on my raspberry pi and thinking I probably need a special client for “always on” to work.

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by Scramblejams on Sunday August 25, 2019 @01:01PM (#20794009)

On iOS the only way I found for “always on” to work well was with the IKE protocol using the built-in VPN client. I set up a cheap Vultr VM and used this:

https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup

One caveat: Reconnects worked poorly until I disabled the iptables rate limiting the script imposes.

Outside of that, it’s worked really well. I pointed the VM’s DNS at Adguard so I get some good filtering as part of it.

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by heyoni on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:05AM (#20799940)

I'm trying wireguard at the moment for the always on feature. Setup was absurdly easy.

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by Scramblejams on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:16PM (#20803305)

Cool. When I set my VPN up, Wireguard didn’t do iOS yet, but I’m interested in it. Please post back to this thread with a short experience report, if you wouldn’t mind. :-)

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by heyoni on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:54PM (#20804163)

So far it's been really good. It's very good at staying on all the time and it was really easy to setup. Right now it's running on a raspberry pi but since I took down my ipsec vpn container, my ram/temp/cpu usage has gone down quite a bit.

I still need to spend a minute configuring things like dynamic dns in case my IP changes but I'm really impressed right now.

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by Scramblejams on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:56AM (#20806692)

Thanks! Just ordered an Rpi4 for home routing duties, I’ll give it a try there first.

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by heyoni on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:36PM (#20832837)

Btw, I also highly recommend a case cooling case for the rpi4. I got the aluminum one at https://flirc.tv but I think anything like it will do. It dropped the idle temperature by quite a bit. I think it went from ~75ish to about 45

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by Scramblejams on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:47PM (#20832929)

Good call. Those are pretty cases.

I saw some tests indicating open+fan really dropped temps vs closed+fan so I ordered one of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXSMY1N

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by heyoni on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:52PM (#20832972)

I'd be curious to see what the idle temperatures land on.

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by a012 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:20AM (#20793446)

I use Wireguard on both mobile and laptop, setting it up is easy and fast (with my Ansible playbook it's just play then get configs).

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by heyoni on Sunday August 25, 2019 @12:36PM (#20793879)

Wireguard is its own protocol separate from IPSec or l2tp right?

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by 1553There on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:09AM (#20793392)

The problem with this is that it quickly gets expensive when you have more than a little traffic. Most VPS up to 5$/month only include 1 TB, so if you need more than that you have to pay more.

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by traderjane on Sunday August 25, 2019 @10:45AM (#20793270)

Do you have a puppet or bash script for that process?

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by alchemism on Sunday August 25, 2019 @10:53AM (#20793311)

How about an ansible script? https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by msh on Sunday August 25, 2019 @10:59AM (#20793341)

I think algo is considered to be the best solution for this: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by alchemism on Sunday August 25, 2019 @02:23PM (#20794567)

Agreed - I consider it more of a general purpose VPN (and what I use personally). Streisand is more opinionated, in ways that folks that use Proton services might find appealing.

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by Nyr on Sunday August 25, 2019 @02:19PM (#20794548)

I maintain this script: https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install

It's a simple bash script which just gets the job done fast, without dependencies or too much trouble.

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