• Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com
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      From a technical standpoint, how does that work? Are you being an exit-point and get to use others exit points or what am I missing here?

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        The traffic is encrypted between my computer and a VPS located abroad that I rent, which acts as a sort of proxy. My ISP only sees traffic between me and the VPS.

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            Also self hosted Wireguard on a foreign VPS

            I literally don’t even notice between the VPN being enabled or disabled

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            All VPN software might affect bandwidth due to the increased progressing needed for encryption, but quantifying it is hard because several factors come into play : mainly the hardware and bandwidth on either side of the tunnel. Giving it a go is easy and you can check which VPS specs give you the speed you require. Regarding the number of connections, I’m not sure of the answer. For all intents and purposes I don’t run into a lot of problems on a daily basis and bandwidth is acceptable on a cheap 4€/mo VPS with 2 CPUs. Bonus tip for privacy, you can use port 443 for wireguard which makes it less obvious you’re using a VPN.

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            At the moment I pay 4 euros per month, so slightly more expensive than the cheaper commercial options out there but I control the software completely.

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          Ah ok, I did that a while at work, tunneling with putty to my server.

          I do feel a “real” VPN is offering better protection though.

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      And what do you use to hide your traffic from your VPS provider? Or are there privacy focused providers out there?

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        That is not something I do at the moment but I would be happy to hear how other people do it.