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by riobard 263 days ago
> Never had a single problem with it (but increased latency because of weird routings around the world).

UDP (which WireGuard uses to encapsulate your data) traffic is often de-prioritized. You won't notice it when the network load is low, but it will seriously degrade experience during high load periods.
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mimsee 262 days ago
Wouldn't deprioritizing interfere with regular web traffic these days, given that close to one third of non-bot traffic reported by Cloudflare is over UDP with HTTP/3[0]?

[0]: https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage?dateRange=52...

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riobard 262 days ago
I'd certainly hope ISP follow your reasoning. BTW that was why I put my WireGuard server on port 443, hoping it would avoid the tragic QoS…
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