I have been using the Wireguard support in the beta release for most of this past year. Having a persistent connection from my Android phone and my wife's iPhone was simple with the built-in Mikrotik DDNS service. It makes checking on things like security cameras nice if you do not want to use a cloud service.
Yep! I’ve been using the beta and it’s awesome. What other vendors include native WG support? Historically the concept of a performant VPN router pushed you into the realm of enterprise level expensive hardware. Now you can do it on cheap arm cores. It’s game changing.
I used to want Wireguard on my router. It was in fact one of the reasons why I went with an EdgeRouter X.
Then one day, when I was away from home and actually needed the VPN, it absolutely melted. Basically everything on the router stopped working, and I suspect it was Wireguard since the router went haywire when I was actually using it extensively. Needed a hard power cycle, which I couldn't actually do.
These days I just leave my router to do its basic duties and have a Raspberry Pi dedicated to nothing but Wireguard. Haven't had issues since. The Pi 2 Model B also performs better for Wireguard and I imagine that the Pi 4 could saturate my 100 Mb/s upload.
I sort of only want WG support in EdgeRouter as WG client such that my homes in different geographical locations can share the same network transparently. Is that still a good use?
Since there's no actual WG support in EdgeRouters and the experiences I've had with the community-maintained version, I'd personally not go that route. You can probably get better bang for your buck by configuring a couple of Raspberry Pis.
Granted, it's been a hot minute since I've last tried WG on EdgeRouters.
