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Recommendation: Tailscale VPN
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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I like it, but it consumes copious amounts of battery on my Android phone. I only use it for 1)
sshand 2) services that I don't want / need to be accessible over the InternetI run pivpn with wireguard alongside tailscale for this exact reason. Wireguard in the phone, tailscale on PCs.
If you already have to setup and maintain WireGuard, what’s the added benefit of Tailscale for your use case?
In all honesty I ran both because I hadn't yet discovered route advertisement on tailscale. Now that I've discovered that feature, I really only use wireguard for the phone due to battery drain with tailscale. Also, I can't use wireguard on my work PC because the firewall drops all VPN traffic and tailscale gets around that. I'm not gonna pretend to know how it gets around that cause I haven't bothered to learn it that deeply yet but it works and I like it.
I guess the TL;DR is tailscale bypasses firewall restrictions and wireguard doesn't drain my phone battery.
I have an issue with my cell carrier blocking traffic to my home WireGuard server. It works from everywhere else and other cell services so I know it’s them. I’m definitely gonna try out Tailscale to see if it’ll get around it. Thanks for the tip. Too bad about the battery drain but I’m usually only hopping on for a minute to run a few commands over ssh or whatever so shouldn’t be a big deal.
Yeah tailscale is definitely useable on the phone if you toggle it only when you're gonna use it. I keep it on because I have piHole as the VPN DNS so I get adblocking everywhere I go wether I'm on public wifi or cellular. So I need something that doesn't drink battery juice. Wireguard ftw.
I have the same issue with 1.1.1.1 and cloudflare tunnels. It really kills my battery
It does. I only turn it on when I need it.
you use tailscale for ssh instead of termux?
I didn't know what Termux was before this
But if it's ssh on Android, I use Termius (which I haven't used all that much tbh)