Hi everyone, this community is helping me a lot in starting my journey into the self-hosting world. I’m currently just experimenting using my main pc as server, but I’m planning getting an old minipc and let it running 24h.
I wanted to give acces to my hosted service from outside my wifi and since I noticed my Frirzbox router support natively Wireguard VPN i just gave it a try. It was super easy and worked flawlessly, I was able to access to my jellyfin library from 4g and other WiFi. BUT I noticed a big loss in connection speed while using my VPN (e.g. from mb/s 400 to 200 or even worse) and I’m not sure it’s a good Idea to have all my devices constantly under this kind of loss forever.
Am I doing something wrong? Do you suggest other routes in order to expose my services to outside? Thank you, and sorry if it’s a noob question.
It’s likely your upload speed limiting things. If you’re concerned about your internet download speed being hampered, you can configure your wireguard clients to not go through the VPN when accessing internet traffic (configure AllowedIps on the clients to limit it to your VPN and home LAN networks). But accessing data stored in your home LAN will always be limited to your upload speed when the client is not connected directly to your LAN.
This is a good workaround, thanks! Did not know it was possible