With my good old Synology passing away and the new one has just arrived and configured only for default samba access I thought I try to expose the beauty of Pi hole over mobile data connection by terminating a VPN on my good old Raspberry Pi.
I have found this link https://www.pivpn.io/ but the surprise has only come during installation. First I noticed that the default VPN is not Open VPN anymore but WireGuard that Linus Torvalds so highly accolades. Also the installer recognizes Pi hole on the system and offers to use it for DNS over VPN. It supports to be reached via public name for which the subdomain that I posted about recently came very handy. Once Pi VPN installed I only needed to add a simple port forward on the router and the Android client could be configured from the QR code that I could display from command line terminal. Speedtest measured 16/10 over the VPN and this gives perfect quality for all my family videos on the go. And by the way I checked with top and only 16% CPU is used during speedtest so I had to realise that my VDSL upload is the limiting factor in my download speed over VPN and not my good old Raspberry Pi!
Honestly I have never thought that such a performance can be obtained from my good old Raspberry Pi - truly amazed!
I have found this link https://www.pivpn.io/ but the surprise has only come during installation. First I noticed that the default VPN is not Open VPN anymore but WireGuard that Linus Torvalds so highly accolades. Also the installer recognizes Pi hole on the system and offers to use it for DNS over VPN. It supports to be reached via public name for which the subdomain that I posted about recently came very handy. Once Pi VPN installed I only needed to add a simple port forward on the router and the Android client could be configured from the QR code that I could display from command line terminal. Speedtest measured 16/10 over the VPN and this gives perfect quality for all my family videos on the go. And by the way I checked with top and only 16% CPU is used during speedtest so I had to realise that my VDSL upload is the limiting factor in my download speed over VPN and not my good old Raspberry Pi!
Honestly I have never thought that such a performance can be obtained from my good old Raspberry Pi - truly amazed!
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