Which device to run cloudfare warp for the network?

[Gtx Gaming]

Hi Guys

With the internet cables undersea going down more regular now, I am considering implenting a device that would route all traffic over cloudfare warp plus, as everything just works and the speed is just awesome.

I have done it before to bypass shaping on rain, I had an windows machine connected to cloudfare and then do internet sharing over the 2nd NIC. This does work but it is limited by the cpu and sometimes windows just does windows things.

Is there any gateway devices that has warp plus built in by now?

Mikrotik can be pain to setup, but I know it can be done.

This is just for my home network, but I might considering offering it to clients also.

 

[neoprema]

Cable failure is a very different kettle of fish to throttling. Throttling is a technology that you can bypass. A broken cable is a physical issue.

So even if you used CF Warp, whether local server or not, the moment traffic has to exit South Africa even if its encrypted and tunneled it is subject to the far reduced bandwidth due to the physical cable breaks, and hence will be slow anyway.

The only way this could work maybe, is say for example SAT-3 and WACS come back on but not Seacom and your ISP is with Seacom only and not re-routing traffic, or heavily shaping re-routed traffic through more expensive cables - so you're getting bad speeds. In that case if you use CF Warp with a local gateway that's exiting via SAT-3 and WACS - you would then benefit from the speed yes.

But at this rate, with everything being in the mess its in, i doubt Warp would be of any benefit.

 

[airborne]

it does help, how it does I don't know but with past cable breaks I have used CF when connectivity was grinding to a halt and it would bring things back to usable speed.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Cloudflare is simply bigger than any local ISP and therefore has every single inter connect and route in place that local ISP’s just can’t afford or doesn’t make sense to implement.

So yes it does work and while you won’t have full speed in most cases it’s still better than a direct connection.

 

[SauRoNZA]

@Gtx Gaming your likely best option would just be a Raspberry Pi as I believe they now finally have an ARM client available after many many years.

Or for that matter any router with an accessible Linux kernel should be able to work as well.