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From personal experience:

When coupled with an DNS based ad blocker Wireguard can actually make your internet faster than when not using it.

More so on Android than iOS and more so on mobile than fixed, but still feels so much smoother.

you can even only forward the DNS requests and not the rest of the data so your home upload speed won't become your bottleneck.




This is precisely my setup, and I couldn't be happier. I have a lot of internal infrastructure including pi-hole, confluence and a number of self-hosted services. WireGuard lets me go anywhere on my laptop and its like I never left home, and I just keep two configurations for when I want to forward only internal IP addresses, or all my traffic.


> I have a lot of internal infrastructure including pi-hole, confluence

Confluence as in the Atlassian software? What do you use it for at home?


Torturing people


Yep. A 3€ Hetzner server with Wireguard and pi-hole. Running several private services on my server that are just available in my private network. Like an extension to my phone that's always on and working perfectly.

The only thing I was never able to get working was the IPv6 support. Oh well...


Any pointers on setup instructions for WireGuard split tunneling on iOS?


You have issues with WireGuard split tunneling in general or only on iOS ?

To make split tunneling work in WireGuard I changed AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0 in the config file into: AllowedIPs = 92.13.14.15/32 10.192.122.0/24

where 10.192.122.0/24 is the subnet of my tunnel, and 92.13.14.15/32 is the ip address of my home computer

this works on iOS and macos for me


Instructions for wireguard in general:

https://www.ckn.io/blog/2017/11/14/wireguard-vpn-typical-set...

Then you'd just need to use the iOS app, I hope?


not for wireguard. but for openvpn here's a howto https://ba.net/adblock/vpn/doc/howto.html


For a business solution for this try https://ba.net/adblockvpn

Disclosure. It is my day job




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