I’m a noob in this area - custom VPNs. I’ve ben using OpenVPN on android and windows for a past few days by downloading ovpn files from this website Courvix. I just have to import the file in OpenVPN and use the VPN.
I’ve also read on various subreddits that Wireguard is much faster than OpenVPN which is what I desire as well. I’ve seen some videos on youtube on how to use Wireguarad and they are very confusing and looks like I need to do alot of work. Is there any noob friendly way that I can setup wireguard like I do OpenVPN and make sure it is faster than OpenVPN. I would appreciate any replies.
Curvix is a VPN service Provider, the openVPN file you’re downloading is to access THEIR servers. They could also provide a Wireguard conf file.
The tutorial you’re searching are probably to set up your own VPN service (to access something inside your network or to always appear as if you’re at home).
If what you want is VPN that offers Wireguard as an option to connect to their services/Servers then search for just that
Example here : https://serversideup.net/how-to-configure-a-wireguard-windows-10-vpn-client/ where serversideup is the VPN Service Provider and you’re using a config they are providing you.
I don’t know how you intend to run your WireGuard VPN, but if your intention is to run it in a VM or on a SBC like a Raspberry Pi, I would definitely have a look at an awesome little distro called “DietPi” (I’m not affiliated in any ways with that project by the way, but I think it’s an awesome distro that makes some pretty advanced stuff easy) https://DietPi.com
It comes with a substantial list of pre-configured services/programs you can install easily, and they’ll work right off of the bat without the usually needed and complicated configurations (like modifying iptables, configuring the firewall, and what not)
In the case of WireGuard, it will be installed and pre-configured to work immediately and load on boot (mount the WG interface), with all needed public/privaye keys already generated, etc.
All you’ll have to do is to import the automatically generated “wg0-client.conf” configuration file (located in /etc/wireguard) into your different clients (computer, phone, etc.) and you’ll be good to go
I’ve learned a lot using that distro when I started using Linux a few years ago. It makes the learning curve less steep by pre-configuring all the complicated stuff for you and providing you something that just works. Once you start understanding how things work and get more comfortable, you can start generating your own keys and configure stuff by yourself.
Listen man, I have no idea how to setup my own VPN. I’m looking for a website to download .conf file to import into wireguard to see if it faster than the VPN (Courvix) I use in OpenVPN.
What do you mean by “Execute the command”? Where do I type the command and execute it in windows? I just want to be able to use vpn in my windows pc and android phone.
I’m totally noob to open vpns.
Ooohhh i think you need to find the vpn provider like you use (Courvix) but based on wireguard if you want to use wireguard like you use courvix openvpn, i think most common used is mullvad, but i never use this tho…
Other way is that you can have a vps, setup wireguard server there (with pivpn) then connect your pc and phone to that server,
I use this tutorial but might be confusing for beginer