A faster upload speed? The VPN isn’t going to matter much as long as the server and clients aren’t being throttled by some wicked slow CPU, overhead is minimal for each. I’ve run similar heavy loads on openvpn without issue.
My point was more so that the term is fairly broad. EVPN can refer to an encrypted service, or it might have no encryption and only use encapsulation like with EVPN-MPLS. Even something like a GRE tunnel is arguably a VPN, even though the content isn’t encrypted at all.
OP ultimately came here, asked the question, and was told that VPNs are more than just NordVPN and Co. As long as people have an idea of what they’re trying to achieve, they can be search or be guided in the right direction, which may also include educating them on the correct use of certain terms.
The vast majority of people aren’t using a VPN to get into their home network, so if they don’t know what a VPN is, frankly I don’t give a shit. I only give a shit about the people who actually need to know what the term means and how it applies. Just like with WiFi. Sure, I could TRY to educate people that WiFi does NOT mean the Internet as a whole, but it frankly makes no difference to me whether some stranger either does or doesn’t know what WiFi (or a VPN) is.
So it doesn’t make any difference and I could use whatever VPN I want to?
But then I don’t understand this comparison:
I mean, if I knew earlier, I would have used a VPN years before instead of fiddling around with horrible solutions for years before figuring out that a VPN was the exact simple solution I needed. That’s not a uncommon thing and it’s quite unfortunate.
Interesting comparison. Bookmarking that for later.
However how much speed does one need for a high quality stream nowadays? 22mbps should suffice for most use cases. It’s ‘terribly slow’ by today’s standards, but I guess I’m just an old man who is used to 5mbps as fast downloads. I rarely saturate my 300/300 fios link lol
I think 22mbps is ok for 2 streams with 1080p? I have 1gig down and 50mbit up. It’s okay. Not that bad it’s just ok. 20 years ago I also had only a 32kbit/s down for music. It was insane when I saw download finished after 5-10mins.
Or you live in Switzerland. They have 1gig down and 1gig up. Then you have the today’s standard your talking about.
Let me know your opinion on the link above. I’m excited 
Tailscale is generally easier to setup and in this test (which is outdated as Tailscale got faster and other might’ve as well), I’d just go Tailscale, it’. If you want a completely selfhosted experience, you can selfhost Tailscale using a project called Headscale or you can use Wireguard, which is also open source and more lightweight.
What many don’t know or remember is that TCP connections like file transfers will suffer.
1/3 of packets in the 3-way handshake must “return” to setup a connection. With quic things can be setup and resumed faster but for pure TCP connections every packet sent must be acknowledged in timely fashion otherwise it’s deemed not received…