Self hosted VPN recommendations

Yes and easy to setup as well.

That they have an app for setup/initial config is amazing. Used mine for road warrior VPN going from hotel to hotel. The choices for VPN providers were not optimal, but the device supported mullvad via wireguard. Amazing bit of kit. I paid less than $50 on Black Friday.

I use wireguard on a pi5 as a server in my home base, works perfectly wherever I am in the world.

Does that routing through peer affect throughput

Bare Wireguard is technically better but Tailscale makes an excellent backup in case Wireguard port gets blocked. I use both

Out of curiosity what is the os ur running on the nuc, and the wireguard server software?

The best way do just it Buy an Asus router, there is ready-made Wireguard and it works For Clint, my advice is this WG tunnel https://github.com/zaneschepke/wgtunnel/releases/tag/3.4.4

I use a gl-inet flint as my main WireGuard server and a zimaboard as a backup. Traveling I use a gl-inet mudi nice little travel router that has built in cellular modem as well.

That’s a much larger PITA than setting up wireguard, although you do get hardware acceleration on some devices depending on the hardware.

They charge you way too much money for the cheapest slowest devices possible. Buy two Cudi routers or two glinet routers or one of each. Then hire a guy on fiverr to port forward and set up wireguard remotely. That setup can cost you under 100$ instead of 300$ like they charge.

I couldn’t get tail scale to work with my glinet routers using that guide

are you still running a vps to connect to your vpn?

If the peers establish a direct connection, no. In some cases, where one of the peers is behind a restricted NAT setup, they might establish a relayed connection, and that may affect the performance depending on how far they are from the relay server.

Why is it better? TailScale manages the configs for you, is easier to install on every peer and has additional features like MagicDNS and the ability to easily change exit routing. I’ve done all of that with bare WG and have no desire to manage that in config files.

Hi, running Ubuntu 22.04 and wireguard is installed as a standard package via apt.

The problem you can get with hardware like this is still resource bottlenecks. I even had resource issues running a WG VPN on my Ubiquiti Dream Machine.

The mudi seems cool because you don’t need a battery pack or to plug it into your computer to power it but it’s so expensive. I wonder will it work with Global Sim cards.

Yes I know it’s not as easy to set up as with wireguard but if you invested the time to configure it you’ll have a really solid VPN :slight_smile:

Exactly! Not plug and play. You have to do the support session for port forwarding and setup.

https://thewirednomad.com/vpn is a FREE how-to guide so you can buy the routers yourself on Amazon for cheaper. And IF you need help setting up you can just pay $50 for an hour call to walkthrough the entire setup.

What’s the issue? Though, it is noted GL.iNet doesn’t officially support Tailscale especially not as an exit node.