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Re:Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs by lkxijlewlf on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:19AM (#25111895)
So, is it easy to set this up using a phone when you get to a hotel, for example? Do you simply select the hotel wifi to use?
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Re:Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs by heavyset_go on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:27AM (#25113554)
I have a similar setup with a travel router running OpenWRT and it is as simple as connecting to the hotel WiFi.
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Re:Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs by arbitrage on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:45AM (#25113054)
No, it is not easy. It is messy, the codebase is showing its age, configuration is a nightmare, and throughput overall is pretty shit with so many layers of unoptimized linux piled ontop of hardware that was never optimized to handle this type of packet generation and mangling.
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Re:Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs by SahAssar on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:59AM (#25113213)
> and throughput overall is pretty shit with so many layers of unoptimized linux piled ontop of hardware that was never optimized to handle this type of packet generation and mangling

That's a very broad generalization. I use a https://pcengines.ch/ based router with openwrt and mullvad as my VPN and performance is very close to non-vpn traffic.

Sure, if you run your VPN on bad hardware you might get bad performance but that is not true for everyone.

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