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.
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.
Self hosted WireGuard
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?
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.
How does it effect your internet speed, and does inhibit number of connections at all?
Also self hosted Wireguard on a foreign VPS
I literally don’t even notice between the VPN being enabled or disabled
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.
What does that run you? Is it more cost effective than a few dollars a month for a commercial service?
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.
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.
And what do you use to hide your traffic from your VPS provider? Or are there privacy focused providers out there?
That is not something I do at the moment but I would be happy to hear how other people do it.