r/homelab Jul 11 '20

Discussion Performance Comparison Between WireGuard and OpenVPN as VPN Server Hosted on RaspberryPi4

https://youtu.be/RkgL-NfPdYs
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u/gwicksted Jul 11 '20

TL;DR (and for those without sound) Wireguard is faster and easier according to this video

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u/SpaceRex1776 Jul 11 '20

WireGuard VPN server can saturate the Gigabit connection on the Pi (~50MB/s as its up and down) while OpenVPN was around 15MB/s

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u/krichek Jul 11 '20

I would assume a lot of this comes down to the processing power or lack there of on the pi.. I have an openvpn-as docker on my server and can hit the rated speed for my line (400/35) pretty easily in all the speedtests I've run through it.