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Full WireGuard Support in ProtonVPN for Android

by xook on 10/11/21, 6:35 PM with 50 comments

  • by babayega2 on 10/12/21, 12:42 AM

    3 years ago I installed Project Streisand [0] on one of my Digitaocean droplets which configured automatically different VPN protocols and my favorite one has been Wireguard. To this day I still use it on all my devices and it's only last month that I was made aware that the project has been discontinued (Why??). But my Wireguard VPN is still kicking. Works like a charm. On all devices. I can use restricted apps in Africa where my bank app and Disney plus/HBO do not works...

    [0]: https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

  • by badrabbit on 10/11/21, 8:50 PM

    I've mostly only used OpenVPN for personal VPN needs. Is WG stable/reliable? My OpenVPN tunnels bounce too much.

  • by jvanderbot on 10/11/21, 9:02 PM

    Eventually nobody will talk about Wireguard because everyone will use it for almost everything. It'll be like HTTPS, TLS, or TCP.

  • by oliverjudge on 10/11/21, 7:40 PM

    It’s nice to see one of these providers upgrading their protocols away from openvpn and the like, but it still doesn’t solve the problem of these commercial VPN’s are still just someone else’s computer.

  • by tumblewit on 10/12/21, 4:20 AM

    Apple is getting into VPN now and if I was to guess they would integrate it with some kind of hardware block in their silicon to make it seamless and transparent. I wonder if Wireguard is at the point where silicon makers can actually consider a hardware block such that the VPN is completely transparent to the cores. Personally I find it better to have individual devices do the VPN than at the central network of my home as I find that these mobile devices are significantly more powerful and efficient to do it.

  • by aborsy on 10/12/21, 3:22 AM

    When comparing Wireguard with OpenVPN, it’s worth mentioning that:

    * While creating a point to point tunnel is straightforward with Wireguard, it’s the networking part that takes time.

    You need to do a bit of networking to set up firewall, access internet and other networks, etc, that may not follow a standard formula depending on your set up.

    * Wireguard creates a tunnel. OpenVPN does a lot more, such as authentication, etc. The tunneling part of OpenVPN is much smaller than the whole

    * Wireguard doesn’t support TCP