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![]() ![]() I *assume* if you use Tailscale (e.g., from Entware), then it's running in user space. He's placed a tremendous amount of time and effort into the implementation, and it shows. And (one of the developers) on the DD-WRT forums provides GREAT support. In short, I don't know of any better option at this point than DD-WRT, OEM or third-party. ![]() Things like PBR are NOT common, and as a result, usually means you can't run both a WG server and client at the same time on the router. ![]() I'm not even sure they all run in the kernel (which is essentially for best performance). Most OEM implementations are NOT going to give you all those features. That's why confining yourself to purely OOTB is severely limiting your options. Only issue is that like many other third-party firmware, there's NO AX (WiFi 6) support, just AC (WiFi 5). My older RT-AC68U, which tops out around 30Mbps w/ OpenVPN, gets up to 111Mbps w/ WG! Obviously more modern and powerful routers would see similar improvements. Most ppl will find 3x or more improvement from OpenVPN to WG. WG client and server, multiple tunnels, auto-configurable w/ import files from VPN provider, PBR (policy based routing), split DNS, built-in watchdog and killswitch, runs in the kernel (NOT user-space like some implementations), etc. Not quite out of the box, but any router that supports DD-WRT is a good option. It's interesting when it happens as it shouldn't be. Occasionally while downloading things I'll see the IP / port spread across multiple locations / IP's as well. For a little while though some of the servers were also reporting locations all over the world vs local US locations. Instead of sticking with OVPN I switched countries to get WG speeds that were higher but more latency and messed with geo based services like languages on streaming platforms. It was a bit odd and in about a month it started working again. ![]() Primary worked fine but, the clients couldn't get TLS connections out from behind it. I wouldn't have bothered with OVPN though if it hadn't been for a glitch on their servers that only was working for the primary PC and not letting clients passthrough it to get out. Yeah, if you end up using OVPN then you need a CPU w/ AES to deal with the encryption processing at a quicker pace but, even using a 8700K I wasn't able to break beyond 600mbps on OVPN but on the same nord server using WG instead got full line speed. ![]()
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