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by aine 1711 days ago
Sorry, I want to warn you, the following comment text contains rage and rants, please, do not read it if you don't want to see such things.

Every goddamn article I read about wireguard disadvantages contains following buzzwords: "big vendors", "200 clients", " rolling updates"....

Hello, my name is Aine and I want to setup family VPN. I don't have Cisco, I don't have 200 devices, I don't need rolling updates around the world. I need simple, fast VPN that will work. And you know what? Wireguard works OK. It's simple, it's fast, it works!

Why should I care about "big vendors" or "200 clients"? Why EVERY article talks about that bullshit?

I ask you a personal favor: if you ever will write an article about VPN, please, I beg you, explain how it works for small users use cases, like family usage or small business. I tell you why - because " big vendors " and people who need rolling updates of ciphers on 200+ clients all over the world will figure out pros and cons of different solutions without your almost the same article as 100500 Google results for "%vpnname disadvantages" /rant

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Posts like this talk about enterprise installations because families don't need VPNs. Unless your family is roaming all over the country and you're hosting private network services that they need access to. In addition, there are a multitude of consumer wifi routers out there with VPN servers built into them.
> families don't need VPNs

Our observations are very different, but OK. What about small business with 5-10 employees? They definitely need VPN, especially in WFH era. And no, they don't have (money to buy) Cisco.

> In addition, there are a multitude of consumer wifi routers out there with VPN servers built into them.

Of course. When I got a new contract with ISP they installed shiny new router. Do you know what VPN server is builtin into that router? None. And that router installed to all clients of that ISP (one of few biggest ISP in my country)

I think this is a chicken + egg problem.

If families had VPN's, then maybe hosting family home servers that can be securely connected to w/o dealing with NAT/DMZ/Port Forwarding, and the demand for non-centralized services would go up.