T-Mobile fiber & Wireguard
T-Mobile fiber & Wireguard
Is T-Mobile Fiber (in the US) friendly to Wireguard, or am I going to have blocking issues?
T-Mobile is installing fiber throughout our neighborhood. While I'm not a huge fan of T-Mobile, I actively loath Comcast, and that (or DSL) are currently our only options. At less cost for guaranteed Gb up/down, it's a no-brainer switch.
Except that we're always on VPN. I've got a perma-connection through Mullvad on the router, and a bypass for VPN the company my wife works for uses; there's no unencrypted anything going through the network provider. Comcast has never been an issue, but before I go through switching to T-Mobile it'd be nice to confirm that they aren't going to try to block VPN traffic.
As in the title, it's Wireguard; does anyone use anything else anymore? Don't answer that; it's rhetorical.
Can anyone in the US confirm they're successfully using Wireguard on T-Mobile Fiber?
I know this doesn't help much but I use T-Mobile cell towers with an always on VPN with no issue. But I don't see why they'd block Mullvad. (I'd be more concerned that they'd block them than wireguard in general). But there's completely legitimate reasons to use both so I don't see them really bothering to block either.
Harvesting tracking data is a revenue stream. T-Mobile and Verizon home internet have both been caught attaching tracking headers to TCP packets. A VPN strips those. If enough customers use VPNs, it really can impact their bottom line, as they have data on fewer customers to sell.
That's the "why they'd bother."
Yes but while the service is targeted for home use there still is remote work which generally requires a VPN back to the company network. They wouldn't be able to block this. Now sure they might be more inclined to block Mullvad but they'd impact too many businesses by blocking wireguard as a whole.
And assuming they did block Mullvad but not wireguard... Just rent a VPS and install a wireguard server and client there to bridge back to Mullvad.
The reason I asked here was because my search popped up some results from people saying they had trouble with VPNs on their T-Mobile service.Some were on Reddit, which I can't get too unless I bounce around and find an exit node they aren't blocking, which I'm too lazy to do; and all of them were AFAICT about cell data service. I didn't find anything that mentioned fiber.
But, if they block VPN on one business unit (cellular), they're more likely to block on others, so I thought I'd check.