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beeb
joined 2 years ago
The Proton offering is a great alternative imo
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.
That is not something I do at the moment but I would be happy to hear how other people do it.
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.
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.
Self hosted WireGuard
I learned about Infinity today, will trial it out : https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy
Also using voyager at the moment but it doesn't feel quite right on Android as it was mostly based on Apollo for ios. Even with the slight android theming it's still ios-like.
Is one of these free (license-wise) and open source?
Unfortunately the 99% that don't know about less popular options will still be affected