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Re:Free Public WiFi by muppetman on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:26AM (#36938805)
Edit: I apologise I see you have answered this below.

What is your error correcting tunnel? Given that Wireguard is UDP and that any tunneled TCP that gets dropped should just be handled by TCP, why encapsulate Wireguard in something else? I certainly find Wireguard itself improves many Public Wifi networks, I've never thought to encapsulate it further.

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Re:Free Public WiFi by DistractionRect on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:00AM (#36938970)
> any tunneled TCP that gets dropped should just be handled by TCP, why encapsulate Wireguard in something else?

That's the thing, TCP doesn't really handle lossy connections well. A moderate lossy link might do udp traffic like video fine, but be practically unusable for TCP traffic.

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