Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad

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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