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So as I look to build my first dedicated media server, I’m curious about what OS options I have which will check all the boxes. I’m interested in Unraid, and if there’s a Linux distro that works especially well I’d be willing to check that out as well. I just want to make sure that whatever I pick, I can use qbittorrent, Proton, and get the Arr suite working

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[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wireguard uses UDP which results in better latency and power usage (e.g. mobile). This does not mean Wireguard can't tunnel TCP packets, just like OpenVPN also supports tunneling UDP.

I'm using Wireguard succesfully for torrenting.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As a note: while UDP is preferable for stability/power usage, UDP VPN traffic is often blocked by corporate firewalls (work, public free wifi, etc) and won't connect at all. I run OpenVPN using TCP on a standard port like 80/443/22/etc to get through this, disguised as any other TLS connection.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

Good point. Setting up shadowsocks and tunneling wireguard through is on my to-do list. I believe ss also works over TCP so it should work reliably in filtered networks.