Is WireGuard really the "gold standard" now, and do budget VPNs implement it well?
I’ve been reading up on VPN protocols and everyone seems to be talking about WireGuard. Apparently, it’s much faster and has way less "code bloat" than the old OpenVPN standard, which sounds great for my phone's battery life. My question is: does the protocol matter more than the provider?
For instance, I saw that FastestVPN recently added WireGuard support to their apps, and they have a lifetime plan for $20 right now with code CM20. If they're using the same protocol as the "premium" guys like NordVPN (NordLynx), is there any reason to pay $100+ for a subscription? Or is there more to it, like the quality of their specific server hardware? I’m trying to figure out if a budget VPN with WireGuard is "good enough" for a daily driver, or if I’ll regret not going with a more established brand.
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Wireguard is an intentionally minimum VPN technology, it is designed to have other things built on top of it. This gives advantages like less code to review and maintain which should be less likely to have a security vulnerability.
Wireguard is only a point to point, uses public/private key pairs for authentication and static IP addressing.
OpenVPN on the other hand has a broad feature set that can prove really useful when managing large networks with dynamic addressing, multiple authentication methods and many options that can prove really useful to have in the VPN configuration file.In terms of speed most of Wireguard's advantage is due to it running the VPN in the kernel, OpenVPN is actually working toward this with version 2.7 that will have Data Channel Offload (DCO) that will significantly close the gap.
The big takeaway I would give though is a lifetime plan is not viable for these type of VPN's as the data has to travel through the server and that has a cost so how long will your $20 last?
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