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		PureParadigm on May 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bad times in corporate wireless networks I just keep Wireguard on even when on my home network. With NAT Loopback on the router this works fine. Is there a reason to have it off?

jedberg on May 3, 2020 [–]

Wireguard kills the battery on my phone so I like it off when I’m home.

Also my wireguard box isn’t fast enough to handle gigabit speeds so on my home network it slows things down too much.

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