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Pihole on the home network and my phone has constant VPN connection to the home network via Wireguard.
Out of curiosity, you have to open a port in the router for that to work, right? How does that work in the security aspect? Do you need to do some constant maintenance in your setup or something in order not to be vulnerable?
While you have to open a port for wireguard, it doesnt respond to anything other than your clients with a key. It should be safe enough without any maintenance, but security updates are always a good idea. If you don't want to open port there are alternatives like tailscale or zerotier, but I have never tried them
Meshvpns like you described work good but having a real WAN connection works best in my experience.
Yes, wireguard requires an open port. No security issues in the years I've had this setup.
How much battery do you think this consumes? I've always thought an always on VPN set up but never tried it as I assumed it would drain the battery too quickly.
The battery consumption is negligible. I use Invisible Pro with so many different types of blocks and circumventions that it's almost ridiculous, and it runs at about a 3% in 24 hours. Invisible Pro has to be way up on the battery sucking scale for similar products.
1-2% with always on VPN. My kernel is very old (3.18) and it doesn't have wireguard kernel module.
I have the same configuration running on all my devices, my kids and my wife's too, it's wonderful.
Did you use a guide to configure it all? I'd love to get started but networking has always been a weak spot for me
This is the way.