[TigOleBittyz]

SO I went throught the hassle of learning dd-wrt(not bad) and setting up a cloud server and loaded wire guard on it(pretty bad lol). Well it doesn't work how I was thinking, I need to be able to change my location to say "Brazil". Does openvpn do this before I go through the hassle of setting that up? Or what are my options to achieve this? I have a VPN from ExpressVPN but it will only run wireless and not Ethernet, which I want direct wired for hooking to the Xbox.

[kernel-panic69]

I wonder how many people are still pissed off that Bastard sold out the technology of GameSpy3D/Arcade. Hopefully, Tetsuo, Breadtooth, and all the other folks behind the little empire that started out in Costa Mesa, CA as Critical Mass Communications are getting paid as well as Bastard is out of that deal.

Anyway, IRT your question, using a VPN provider that supports Wireguard (or OpenVPN) with multiple locations to choose from should be doable in current releases of DD-WRT. Setting up your own single endpoint is not an ideal solution if you wish to change locations often.

[TigOleBittyz]

Gamespy lol that rings a bell from way back.

Any suggestions on a vpn? Research said express vpn was nice and fast for gaming but unfortunately doesn’t support WireGuard. Guess I’ll start my search again tomorrow and see what I can find out.

[SurprisedItWorks]

airvpn.org or mullvad.net. I would have included azirevpn.com, but they recently jacked up their prices to the highest I've heard of for any vpn service. All three support wireguard.

Of these AirVPN offers the most configurability if you're a tinkerer. If you want one that also has an app super easy to get going on a phone, it's hard to top mullvad. Both have plenty of dd-wrt users.

These are independent operations. The big names that advertise everywhere, pay reviewers to rate them tops, and brag to the ignoscenti about having zillions of servers (often virtual) are in many cases part of just a few VPN corporate families, some with slightly sketchy ownership. AirVPN does not advertise. Mullvad's network is used by Mozilla for "their" VPN and gets lots of exposure that way.

IIRC Mullvad has a fixed monthly charge of $5 or €5. AirVPN is likely to offer a sale late in the year [edit: "Black Friday Sale" begins today 18 Nov 2022], so with them the optimal strategy is get a short subscription to get everything working and see how you like it and then extend during the sale.

[portsup]

using pia but not sure if they are still 'private'

[Alozaros]

[egc]

I have a lifetime subscription at Keepsolid they support WireGuard and OpenVPN on the router but no port forwarding. I paid $30
Servers are sometimes overloaded and your WireGuard config is deleted if you do not use it for some time so you get what you pay for.

I also have Mullvad, much better but pricey.

Proton has free accounts which work well for OpenVPN, for WireGuard they are only valid for one day, but you can easily make another one the next day

[bushant]