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bertman on May 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Set up your own VPN at home with Raspberry Pi – Wo...

The author uses a Fritz!Box router, which is a very popular device in Germany. Note that AVM, the company behind the routers, is working on providing Wireguard natively on their newer routers (no hardware-assisted encryption, though):

https://en.avm.de/fritz-lab/fresh-from-development/updates-i...

sofixa on May 4, 2022 [–]

It's telling that none of their devices support fiber...

nebalee on May 4, 2022 | | [–]

They do:

https://avm.de/produkte/fritzbox/fritzbox-5530-fiber/

https://avm.de/produkte/fritzbox/fritzbox-5590-fiber/

MarkCole on May 4, 2022 | | | [–]

They do have a fiber model[0]. However as someone else mentioned most ISPs provide a modem with Fiber, and you put your router behind it.

[0] https://en.avm.de/products/fritzbox/fritzbox-5530-fiber/

mfontani on May 4, 2022 | | [–]

To be fair most fibre providers supply their own ONT which you then put in cascade with your router.

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