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by crawshaw 2383 days ago
If you haven't given WireGuard a try yet, now is a good time.

Securely and reliably connecting all my devices with WireGuard was a big reminder to me that there's a much better internet hiding under the hub-and-spoke consumer services model. The internet can be so much more than our phones connecting to large data centers.

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Can you give us an illuminating example of the fulfillment you’ve gained from ... ip-over-udp tunneling? It doesn’t really sound that revelatory?
Not OP. I have a wireguard server setup on my home network. Client installed on my mobile devices. The always on UDP connection seems to use less battery than my previous setup of a TCP VPN. I use this setup to allow my mobile devices to use my home recursive DNS server, which blocks tons of domains for tracking, ads, etc.
It has a relatively seamless setup and is far from bloated, encryption is efficient on low-powered ARM devices and it works surprisingly well in environments where internet connections are shoddy at best.