This mirrors my anecdata on consumer (<$150) wifi router hardware. I recently upgraded my home router specifically for wireguard and it's been 5x faster than openvpn.
szszrk · 8h ago
More or less my experience as well. I run Mikrotiks usually, but also on openwrt consumer hardware it's at least 3-4x more throughput than OpenVPN.
Very useful for low-end routers, travel routers and similar.
Also initial connection time is basically instant.
hexmiles · 8h ago
In addition to been faster it is also the only vpn that reliably handle roaming, without interrupting active connections.
buserror · 6h ago
Well apart from tinc, which has been doing that for decades [0] :-) -- and has been doing that since Linux was something that still ran on 8MB of RAM.
tinc can also automatically select routes through the mesh, and it supports layer 2 (tap) VPN too. Wireguard is a long way from this feature set unfortunately.
justincormack · 8h ago
My laptop can run chacha20 at 2GB/s on a single core. Encryption performance hasnt really been an issue for a long time. Most VPNs will be running AES128 that has hardware support and should be even faster.
lotharcable · 7h ago
Used 10GbE ethernet components are cheap on ebay.
I built a 10GbE 'switch' by buying 2 4 port SPI+ PCIE cards off of Ebay and then joining them together with a conventional Linux Br0 bridge on a old Intel gaming machine. Had no problem keeping up with line speed.
I didn't test wireguard with it, but it should work pretty effectively for testing what speed it can get up to.
Very useful for low-end routers, travel routers and similar.
Also initial connection time is basically instant.
[0]: https://www.tinc-vpn.org/
I built a 10GbE 'switch' by buying 2 4 port SPI+ PCIE cards off of Ebay and then joining them together with a conventional Linux Br0 bridge on a old Intel gaming machine. Had no problem keeping up with line speed.
I didn't test wireguard with it, but it should work pretty effectively for testing what speed it can get up to.