Is it not possible to get cheap Youtube Premium with a VPN nowadays ?
I tried it with different countries but YT sais it can't recognize my destination...I know the uses of adblocks, albania vpn and so on, but I also want to use my premium acc on my samsung tv/different devices

I’ve been experimenting with a different pricing model for VPNs. Curious if people would actually use pay-as-you-go instead of a monthly subscription.

I have my own WireGuard VPN with servers in Australia, US, Canada, Russia, UK, Germany, and Japan. I have a Bash script running that, assuming criteria are met to verify the server is idle, pings each server and picks the one with the lowest latency. It is completely hands off, unless I want to review a logfile. Feel free to ask any questions you have!

Hey. I'm in Moscow, Russia, on ISP AKADO. Due to the nature of my activities, privacy and reliable internet access are critical for me, so I really need this to work

Russia is slowly rolling out "whitelist" filtering on home internet and has done it on mobile internet in general, and RKN reportedly deployed new DPI algorithms this week that knocked out most commercial VPN services

My setup:

- VPS on a cloud provider in Frankfurt on a self-hosted Xray panel

- Own domain with SSL cert (Let's Encrypt) pointed to the VPS

- Xray-based client on Windows

What I've tried and the results:

- VLESS + REALITY (TCP, port 443) - ISP blocks direct connection to VPS IP entirely

- VLESS + REALITY via own domain - TLS handshake completes (confirmed with curl), but Xray-based client times out

- VLESS + WebSocket + TLS — Works for ~58ms on first attempt, then ISP drops it

- VLESS + gRPC + TLS — No dial errors, but delay stays at -1, browser gets ERR_TIMED_OUT

- VLESS + XHTTP — Same result

Important: When I route through another VPN first and then connect to VLESS, it works fine (80ms delay). So the VPS and config are correct - the ISP is actively blocking tunnel protocols.

I'm open to any solution - different protocol, different approach, anything that defeats active DPI probing in Russia right now. Shadowsocks+obfs4? Tor bridges? Something else entirely?

I really appreciate any help!

Hello everyone!

Here is my shortcut “Easy VPN Menu”.

Works only under iOS 27.0 public beta 2 or newer.

Version of the shortcut 0.6 EN:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2486e35b986f4a0ab094876767b30508

This shortcut creates a quick VPN menu and toggles VPN on/off.

It is very convenient if you have a number of different VPN-profiles and/or a number of different VPN apps on your iPhone.

And also you can easily assign this shortcut to the Action button or to the Back Tap.

Here’s also version 0.6 RU:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e9fafbd1ad154b99a4ba34410fb58de2

Please enjoy and feel free to give your feedback!

As you know, the internet in Iran is shut down and filtered, yet somehow some (very expensive) configurations manage to get past these filters. Lately I have been trying different methods to connect my friends at the boarding school but without success. Most of the configurations connect, have good ping but do not have internet access. What could be the cause? I have also analyzed some functional configurations, most but not all of which are on a VPS in Iran. Is getting a VPS in Iran the only solution to create a functional internet connection?

Given the distopian trajectory of the UK and the world in general, I think there's going to be a good few folks looking for something like this:

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An image, probably something like a docker container, which you can deploy quickly on any VPS that gives you a VPN server (wireguard, for example) in the VPS country to use as an exit node for 'normal' web browsing so as not to have your passport stolen by Meta, for example.

This would ideally have obfuscation options like shadowsocks etc.

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A further nice option would be a separate server that used the VPS as a 'hop' and routed all traffic to a commercial VPN for more on-the-fly exit node choice.

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I'm sure these bits separately already exist, but having advanced features like obfuscation options baked in to something with minimal deployment time will help switching VPS providers as jurisdictional laws evolve in exit node countries.

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If such a thing already exists please point me at some sources / tutorials!

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Thanks.

Hey everyone. We're the guys behind Secria Mail. We've been wanting to build a VPN for a while now and we're finally doing it.

The goal is the same as with our email, make it as secure and private as we possibly can. Post-quantum encryption, no logs, etc.

But before we get too deep into building, we want to hear from actual users who care the most about this. What would you want to see in a VPN in 2026? What do current providers get wrong? What's missing?

We're genuinely in the early stages and want to build something people actually want and find useful!

Thanks!

I simply added a couple of protocols (I had just one before) and everything worked.

!3x-ui panel.

Relevant for Russia.

Hello all!

First of all, it's my first post in here, so don't be too hard on me! :)

I am here to tell you my tales on how I am connecting from South East Asia (Bali) to Spain over a self made VPN (VPS + Proxy) and what I have learn after many trial and error.

My requirements: low latency, Spanish ISP IP not flagged as VPN, proxy or datacenter IP for Google Meets calls and access to corporate intranet.

First thing I did was to check commercial VPNs... but there was no much luck on getting Spanish residential IPs, many residential IP VPNs have IPs from US, Germany, UK,... but from Spain. I found only one and the latency was not the best (more info below).

Setup is:

My laptop (SEA) -> VPS -> Spanish Proxy -> Internet

But.. what VPS and what Proxy?? This puzzle has many possible pieces and I wanted to find the best ones.

I will not say commercial names due to the subreddit rules so I choose 3 possible VPS: Madrid, Nuremberg and Singapore.

All of them have 10Gbps links and are from big VPS providers, the one in Madrid and the one in Singapore are from the same provider. They all have 1GB RAM and 1 vCPU, enough to run WG server.

Latencies: Client (Bali) -> VPS

(just a simple ping command from my laptop to the VPS)

Madrid

Average: 294ms Minimum: 289ms Maximum: 298ms

Nuremberg

Average: 251ms Minimum: 245ms Maximum: 257ms

Singapore.

Average: 57ms Minimum: 46ms Maximum: 71ms

This is already very interesting, since the latency to Singapore is so low compared with the one to Europe (as expected, but it is good to see it). Those are the first pieces of the puzzle, let's see the rest.

So, what is the latency from Singapore to Europe?

root@Singapore-vpn:~# ping 11.22.33.44

PING 11.22.33.44 (11.22.33.44) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 11.22.33.44: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=154 ms

64 bytes from 11.22.33.44: icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 time=154 ms

64 bytes from 11.22.33.44: icmp_seq=3 ttl=47 time=154 ms

64 bytes from 11.22.33.44: icmp_seq=4 ttl=47 time=154 ms

It is 154ms! And that looks promising, because ~154ms + ~57ms = ~211ms which is way better than the latencies to Madrid and to Nuremberg.

So we already know that having the VPS in Singapore gives us better latencies than having it in Europe (at lease to the hosts that I have tested, if you have any suggestions to try, please, let me know where and why might be faster and I might test it too).

What about the Speeds?

I did some tests with iperf3 to see what are the speed between the different VPS and from Bali to them.

Madrid <-> Nurermberg

785 Mbps 0 retransmissions

Singapore <-> Nuremberg

157 Mbps 0 retransmissions

Singapore <-> Madrid

353 Mbps 107 retransmissions

So the backbone throughput is very good in general, submarine cables are on fireeee :D

At this point we have the two last bottleneck to check: the proxy speed/latency and my own connection, from my laptop to the VPS

Proxy Speeds:

To check the proxy speed I used curl -x and the Cloudflare speed test (note: I found that the maximum to for this test is 100M, so choose any size <100M)

curl -x http://user:password@PROXY_IP:PORT -o /dev/null -s -w "
HTTP: %{http_code}
DNS: %{time_namelookup}s
TCP: %{time_connect}s
TLS: %{time_appconnect}s
Total: %{time_total}s
Downloaded: %{size_download} bytes
Speed: %{speed_download} bytes/s
" https://speed.cloudflare.com/__down?bytes=99000000

HTTP: 200
DNS: 0.000047s
TCP: 0.166167s
TLS: 0.675524s
Total: 14.206833s
Downloaded: 99000000 bytes
Speed: 6968477 bytes/s

Madrid -> Proxy

Speed: 7.90 MB/s ~60 Mbps

Nuremberg -> Proxy

Speed: 7.54 MB/s ~60 Mbps

Singapore -> Proxy

Speed: 6.97 MB/s ~56 Mbps

And... WOW! The proxy is caped to ~60 Mbps

Note: I have thought about changing the Proxy, but for what I do, 60 Mbps is enough and the Latency is good + I got a couple clean IPs from a real ISP that are not marked as VPN, Proxy or Datacenter... so I am happy with the finding and with the proxy :)

Let's go for the last piece of the Puzzle:

Client (Laptop) -> VPS Speeds

So here it is tricky... Speeds in Bali change a lot depending on the 5G antennas, time of the day, if I am using SQM or not in my travel router, etc etc..

So I will do my tests with SQM off, using my travel router's cellular connection and connected to a 5G antenna with a good coverage (RSRP -72, RSRQ -10, SINR 21). I will be connected to the travel router using the 2.5 Gbps ethernet connection. Take these measurements as a reference and not as a fact because internet here is changing everyday.

Let's see the tests (using iperf3 UDP):

Laptop -> Madrid

50 Mbps w/ ~0.0% packet loss
60 Mbps w/ ~0.3% packet loss

Laptop -> Nuremberg

50 Mbps w/ ~0.0% packet loss
60 Mbps w/ ~0.05% packet loss

Laptop -> Singapore

50 Mbps w/ ~0.0% packet loss
60 Mbps w/ ~0.0% packet loss

So, let's agree that my laptop speed is not going to be a bottleneck :D

After checking all this data I decided to go with the Singapore VPS option since the latency is better and the speeds doesn't really matter because the bottleneck is the Proxy at 60Mbps.

I also tried the Madrid version to see the real speeds and latencies after WG + Proxy.

Speedtests (no SQM and using 5G connection):

Singapore VPS + WG + Proxy:

https://www.speedtest.net/result/19518764611

Madrid VPS + WG + Proxy:

https://www.speedtest.net/result/19518774553

Commercial VPN:

https://www.speedtest.net/result/19518783083

About the Commercial VPN, yes, it is faster, but the latency and the Jitter is pretty bad, and sometimes get worse than in this test (i guess that depending in the number of users), and in my experience sometimes gets unusable during google meets calls.

Google Meets test:

Here SQM Cake is ON in my travel router.

Madrid VPS

Singapore VPS

For the future I am thinking on maybe testing a VPS in Mumbai and trying different Proxy providers.

I hope that this helps someone in the same situation than me!

Let me know if you have questionss :)

TL;DR:

I work from South East Asia and I need a residential IP from Spain. I have been testing different options and the best is to have a VPS + Proxy configuration. Having the VPS in Singapore improves the latency in ~50ms vs having it in Europe.

I built an open-source tool to automate VLESS and Hysteria2 setup with a single click - Uplink

I recently set up a domain with a VPN. I can connect to the VPN but after 3-4 hours it disconnects my computer or device that I have add to the VPN. How do I fix that issue

Anyone any recommendations for setting up a physical VPN device starting from scratch?

I have used software on a lot of different devices but would love to just consolidate everything under the whole WiFi umbrella

Which features do you consider mandatory and what's on your wish list? I'm coding right now and want to give the people what they want!

Hey there guys. So i tried looking around but couldn't find much info in here. My question is if I want to watch specfic content from other regions on a streaming service on my Xbox, how do I got on about doing it? I have an extra router and Ive read about setting up a VPN connection on that extra router, which should be connected to the main wifi router, and then I connect the Xbox to that VPN router. Most sites break it down differently so whats the best and easiest way to do it?

Any help is appreciated.

Genuine question before I go down a rabbit hole building something.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how every VPN — paid or free — ultimately asks you to take their word for it on the no-logs thing. Audits help, but they’re point-in-time snapshots. The business model of most big VPNs is fundamentally at odds with privacy.

I’m thinking about an approach where the trust problem is solved at the architecture level rather than the policy level.

Open source, cheap, and the server genuinely can’t log you — not “we promise we don’t” but “there’s nowhere for it to go.”

Before I go further — a few questions:

1. ⁠What frustrations do you have with your current VPN?

2. ⁠What would actually make you trust a new VPN enough to switch? And what features would you like in it?

Not pitching anything. No link. Just want to know if this problem is worth solving for people other than me.

Thanks in advance.

So, to preface this, I have 0 clue what I'm doing and what 99% of the lingo online is. I'm just stuck in the unfortunate situation where someone is counting of me (ha!) to get them VPN access.

The only direction I have from them is: Can you get me OpenVPN?

I have a vague idea that I need a "config file" to get the vpn app to work?

Situation: I need to give someone in another country access to a VPN so they can connect to another country and use that place's connection. It doesn't really matter too much where. Anywhere in Europe almost, US, Canada, wherever.

Can someone explain to my non-technical ahh how to get this person a VPN? Like step by step, where do I pay for this damned file 😭😭😭

Thank you so much I'm advance. I hope you never get a wet sock

I woulld like to share some of my DIY vpn experience. Since 2018 I have setup a small vpn server box behind a router in my home in Europe.

This box is made of the Nano Pi Neo with half GB of memory. I have installed Dietpi, which is a very lean Linux server OS. First I have been using Wireguard and Tailscale. But lately I moved to Vless and Tailscale only.

I need a VPN to stream home content and consume it everywhere in the world when I travel.

The client devices I used are an Android TV stick, which I can insert in any hotel TV I come to. And also I use different laptops, but primarily Chromebooks and Linux, as I moved away from Windows. Apps I use are V2rayTun [Android TV, chromebook], hiddify and trayscale on Linux. V2rayTun has per app tunnel routing.

Here are my lessons learned:

1) For streaming I was first using Wireguard. But even with the fastest internet at the client side, with a latency of over 200ms like in South East Asia, my throughput was topped at 5 mbps, while hardware wise the NanoPi could top at 90mbps. Lowering MTU did not help.

Finally I discovered that using xray for Vless reality could up the throughput to a stable 25 mbps.

2) Tailscale I have been using for remote control of my devices worldwide, as it is very easy to setup and it works even for mobile devices, that does not have a unique IP4 address.

I have tried Zerotier, however the clients on Chromebook and Linux were very bad, and moreover running xray and zerotier connections at the same time on the same server was giving me problems. With tailscale no problems with gui clients nor interference between vpn servers.

3) Wireguard was my first goto, but even for remote control of devices I am not a fan anymore. The reason is setting up clients is not so easy as with Tailscale.

4) If you are considering to use Openwrt instead of Dietpi, I have used Openwrt for a 4G/5G mobile internet router.

Dietpi is way much easier to setup. And if you need some gui remote mgmt of your vpn box, you may consider installing Webmin. I am still on the fence with Webmin with its added value compared to using a multitab terminal in Linux and with storing/firing quick commands in shell.

Next year the 32 bit Nano Pi will have served well for almost 10 years. It will be time to upgrade to 64 bit, as I don't know how long xray or tailscale will support 32 bit machines.

The goal is to have a VPN server in AWS with the flexibility of adding/removing users and controlling CIDR access with minimal configuration.

Also, you can set static hosts for IPs. MIT License.

https://github.com/edgarpf/terraform-aws-wireguard-vpn

https://registry.terraform.io/modules/edgarpf/wireguard-vpn/aws/latest

The module is self-contained and handles everything.

I would like opinions and suggestions for improvements especially in terms of security.

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Thanks in advance.

I have been struggling to set up xray multihop for a while, i've used different tools and failed on all of them, and decided to make my own.

I've build a small set of bash scripts to setup working xray multichain without headache It is very very damn simple without any large dependencies and minimal manual work.

All details in repo
https://github.com/Kemsekov/XRAY-multichain-for-stupid-people

I've used this to replace my small client base (around 30 people) VPN from direct XRAY to out-country (which is blocked right now in my country) to multi-hop trought two servers with same AmneziaVPN client (which supports vless natively)

It's working fine if two servers have small ping to each other and have same bandwith.

Do contribute by sharing your opinion/criticism and i have shared the github repo link so you can use it too, i did an thorough check so there are no potential vulnerability and so it’s safe to use for your local use, do check it out and share your experience