Just curious who everyone is using out there and what the opinions are of these providers. I’d like to use wireguard supported provider so I’m leaning towards Mullvad…does anyone use mullvad vpn? Any issues setting up with firewalla for network wide vpn?
Stay away from private internet access if you want to use WireGuard, they don’t provide their config in a way that use you can use with the firewalla for absolutely no reason. I use them and am very unhappy with PIA becuase of this and will cancel as soon as my term is up
I use TorGuard. Lots of location options, speed is great for both WG and OVPN options. I’ve been with them for 5+ years…. And just re-upped for the 3 year plan. Highly recommended.
Using VPN Unlimited (Keepsolid) via WireGuard successfully. Occasionally loses connection but restores generally quickly.
The lifetime plans are attractively priced.
My phone connects via WireGuard home and internet traffic is then routed over VPN Unlimited. This allows me to keep access to my NAS, use my Raspberry Pi for DNS over HTTPS, and browse the internet anonymously via VPN.
I use Windscribe, but stuck with OpenVPN until I get my Purple. They’ve changed their downloadable configs a few times, making hiccups with Firewalla, but my latest config has been solid.
Who are you looking at going with instead. I use PIA and am in the same boat. Though honestly I don’t use the vpn client that much on the FW.
Doing pretty much the same using VPN Unlimited and using routes for specific domains to go over VPN. Just keep in mind the lifetime plan limits you to specific locations and of course two of the closest to me is always congested.
Even with connecting to a site further away, I can push over 300Mbs down without issue over the VPN.
Could you explain more of this setup of how you’re using it and how it’s configured? I want to make sure I understand how you are using it, and how it can be used, and I’m not sure 100% I am understanding this correctly based on how I read the post. Thanks for any info!
I still have like 2 months so I don’t know where I will go. I had nord before and it was fine (but this was before the firewalla); I generally will look for deals around Black Friday.
For me it’s the principle of the thing, I was sold a service and it’s not what it was supposed to be.
Yep, VPN Unlimited pretty good. Mostly the longer latency is noticeable but not annoying.
I’m on one of the first VPN Unlimited lifetime plans and unrestricted. Live in HKG and connected to Netherlands (where I originate from).
How are you importing the config. I tried getting the QR code on a different screen and capture it that way but nothing happens, and I don’t see where on VPN Unlimited’s site, where you can download the profile. I even went through, deleted all the old devices, and created a new one from the vpn s website. But when I go to add it to the Firewalla there is no link to download the profile. I can use the App on my phone but I don’t see anywhere it will let you download the profile either. Any ideas?
Sure, actually I would appreciate any community feedback on my setup and the possible pros and cons - I’m in a country where recently the freedom of speech has come under a lot of pressure.
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Setup your Wireguard server, make sure it is allowed to access private networks and especially the subnet for Raspberry Pi. This seems straightforward but I did experience some issues, especially for a second FWG connected site-to-site from my office.
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Connect your phone to your Wireguard server.
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Setup a Wireguard client to your preferred VPN server. Note, after connecting switch off ‘force DNS over VPN’ for the selected profile - else DNS data will be encrypted by the VPN and PiHole won’t be able to intercept and block.
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Setup Raspberry Pi with Pi-hole and Cloudflare DoH and make sure it is allowed to communicate with the Wireguard network. You can ping it via SSH.
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Add blocklists to Pi-hole. In not just blocking ads, I’m blocking crypto mining, malware, tracking and more.
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Change your DNS servers to your Pi-hole internal IP for any networks you have that you wish to send over Pi-hole.
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Block Apple private relay on all your networks - Firewalla has sent an email on how to do this.
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Check if your Pi-hole is working via Pi-hole admin and by using sites to test adblocking. In Pi-hole admin you can also confirm if the connection is DoH or not.
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Test your DNS leak. You should see local Cloudflare servers as DNS endpoint since DNS is not going over VPN.
Thanks and have fun setting this up.
Oh ok, so you’ve had more issues than that with PIA?
On the iPhone/iPad, I noticed the config file does not download from the VPN Unlimited site. If you have access to a computer, the file will download automatically when you create the profile.
With the QR code, I also had no issues but again I created the profile on my Mac and scanned the QR code with my phone when creating the 3rd party VPN.
Thanks for sharing, I definitely appreciate it and the work you’ve done on it. Sounds great!
It works fine, it’s got a lot of choices. The Netflix steaming stuff doesn’t work all the time but that’s pretty normal
Let me try that because I was saving it from my phone and then just displaying the image. Plus I did everything mostly on my phone so I’d that’s the deal, then yea.
You’d think they’d fix a bug like that. It literally says download the config file on their website but give no option to do so under iOS. Go figure. I’ll report back
No worries. Good luck
Ok, gotcha. I wasn’t sure when you said,“For me it’s the principle of the thing, I was sold a service and it’s not what it was supposed to be.”. It seemed like more was wrong or you were sold something that isn’t working as advertised, or as you originally understood it to be. I thought when you said that, something in the service wasn’t working, or was due to multiple things.
I had asked VPNU support about that issue, but never got a reply 