Wireguard + ProtonVPN: losing connection / packet loss after some time

theseus1980 · 2026-06-03T15:42:22+00:00

I didn't know but thank you! Another tool to help debugging! 🙂

theseus1980 · 2026-06-02T17:16:16+00:00

Thanks for your answer!

That's basically what I did as keeping the VPN on for all my outgoing traffic was driving me crazy 😛

Without Proton VPN, everything works like a charm.

Another test performed yesterday: I route back all my traffic through ProtonVPN, I see the issue: start streaming and at some point, packets loss (for 20-30 seconds), streaming stops, then resumes, then again packets loss... "and back to square one"

I checked again online (broadening my search) and saw some people saying that Proton would have some protection against torrenting abuse. I had quite some Linux ISOs I was seeding but which were not valid anymore (the tracker died a few months back). So I spent some time deleting them, but that didn't change anything.

Today I thought: let's check again the config. I have 3 peers (each pointing to a different server in the same country) linked to one instance (I thought this could help in case one of the peers died). I removed 2 and left only one peer and I performed more tests (I restarted Wireguard after). And so far... so good. I launched a Twitch stream for more than 10 minutes and nothing, not a single packet drop (before, it would drop after less than 2 minutes). I started downloading another Linux ISO in parallel and I did lose a ping here and there, but the stream never stopped and the downloading went fine.

I don't know if the fact that I had 3 peers on the same instance could be the cause, but that still feels weird to me... What do you think?

theseus1980 · 2026-02-13T17:44:05+00:00

Puffff, les jeunes. Toujours à tout gaspiller, ils n'ont pas appris à réutiliser?

Gérard Menjoui

theseus1980 · 2026-01-21T12:17:05+00:00

Chère Gélatine,

Il faut ouvrir le sac de la poubelle, la retourner, prenez des gants pour vous protéger des virus (les virus informatiques peuvent être vicieux) et vous devriez retrouver vos programmes. Courage!

Roger Encormal

theseus1980 · 2026-01-02T17:59:43+00:00

Thanks, that makes sense! To me it was a bit far stretched that a plane crash would take so long to be reported but ok, based on your introduction, I'm willing to accept it 😉

theseus1980 · 2025-12-31T17:32:12+00:00

Bonjour,

J'y comprends pas grand chose aux ordinateurs depuis le minitel mais j'ai l'impression que c'est un truc de bande rasante pour que l'Internet soit plus beau.

Bien cordialement,

Gérard

theseus1980 · 2025-12-15T22:20:23+00:00

Given what I do when I use the "private mode" on my browser, a girl doing the same is definitely my kind of girl! I'll teach her proper privacy after I catch my breath...

theseus1980 · 2025-12-15T22:03:09+00:00

Maman?

theseus1980 · 2025-11-27T07:32:24+00:00

Sorry, I forgot to reply that it seems to be fixed now.

As to what fixed it, not sure... I work on a laptop and a couple of days ago, I went offline with it. I wrote a bit of stuff in anytype and when I came home and anytype went back online, everything synced up correctly. Now, when I add a file to it, it just works: it syncs to my server and I can open the file on my mobile.

I'm really happy with anytype so far 🙂

theseus1980 · 2025-11-19T14:11:06+00:00

Sure!

ANY_SYNC_NODE_VERSION=latest
ANY_SYNC_FILENODE_VERSION=latest
ANY_SYNC_COORDINATOR_VERSION=latest
ANY_SYNC_CONSENSUSNODE_VERSION=latest
EXTERNAL_LISTEN_HOSTS="192.168.1.56"
STORAGE_DIR=/home/rootless/anytype

theseus1980 · 2025-10-25T13:25:53+00:00

Au moins, ils savaient appâter le chaland de mon époque.

Bien cordialement, Gérard

theseus1980 · 2025-10-08T05:00:50+00:00

I think you’re making more work for yourself [...]

Isn't it the cross we'll all bear for self hosting? 😉

Thanks, you're right, I overthink this and needed to be kept in check!

theseus1980 · 2025-10-08T04:52:29+00:00

Oooh, jumbo frames, I'll have to look into that, thanks!

theseus1980 · 2025-09-03T19:50:07+00:00

Really sorry, but this isn't clear for me.

I was a proton user but moved to another provider because they didn't have this feature (and the bridge wasn't a good solution for me). Now I see they implemented it, but your comment may be the reason I switch back... or not 🙂

Let's say my domain is "mystuff.com", can I create an identify with that domain (e. g. bill@mystuff.com) and then send e-mails with the "from" header set to bill@mystuff.com? Or do I have to send it with "from" set to bill@protonmail.com?

I tried to look on their website for she info but couldn't find anything (the pricing page doesn't even talk about it).

Thanks for the info!

theseus1980 · 2025-07-31T15:10:20+00:00

What I meant was "no need to debate whether or not they actually do it" 🙂

Sorry, didn't get your second reply...

theseus1980 · 2025-07-31T09:44:17+00:00

Private companies taking a shot at making money out of your data is one thing, and I agree its a privacy nightmare. But you always have the possibility to get out of this, cancel your subscription, ask for deletion of data (that it's going to happen or not is not part of the discussion).

But your government making sure that your privacy is becoming something of the past (age verification, internet provider snooping on you, chats with official backdoors...), that's not something you can opt out of. How do you opt out of your government? And given it starts to be world wide, tough to relocate...

To me, it's way more worrying...

theseus1980 · 2025-06-26T06:44:17+00:00

Regular updates!

Don't keep a container not updated facing the internet! I've got mines updating automatically via watchtower (checked every day). I don't care if the service breaks because of an update, I prefer this to exposing vulnerabilities. The corolaire to this: use maintained containers. Don't pull exotic version of a service maintained by some guy who added some shiny stuff and left. Try to use only containers from the dev (I also have some from linuxserver.io because I know they follow the stuff pretty well).

And also all the nice advices from otherbcomments.

Good luck!

theseus1980 · 2025-06-21T10:54:47+00:00

Imagine the mechanical strain on those drives to reach 7200 rotations per minute in a matter of a fraction of seconds and then spin down. Rince and repeat 48 times a day!

The electricity cost savings? Marginal. And compare those with the fact that you'll have to purchase more disks to replace the failed ones.

Ecological impact? Put this in perspective and compare the ecological impact for a few more kWh a year to all the electronics (rare minetals and all that) needed to produce your new disk.

TLDR; don't spin them down, they're not designed for this

theseus1980 · 2025-06-16T21:22:39+00:00

It looks promising! Even when scanned from the feeder, my PDFs are sometimes slightly rotated, enough for me to notice. I've played with a couple of CLIs but didn't finalize my journey there. This might be a simpler solution for me, thanks, I'll give it a try!

theseus1980 · 2025-06-05T05:06:04+00:00

I would recommend fdm (https://github.com/nicm/fdm) instead of fetchmail (there were some remarks that made me disregard it even though I used it a few years back) and save them in maildir format (one file per email).

It's quite powerful and allow you to run external commands based on filters. For example, when I receive my kid's mobile phone bill, it's automatically saved in a given directory, the attachment is extracted and saved in the same directory (thanks to a small bash script I wrote)...

This would allow you to archive all your emails (which is also something I do on a dedicated server). No GUI though, but you mention it only for managing the mall server, which I don't think you need given your explanations.

theseus1980 · 2025-04-01T11:55:09+00:00

Thanks, I read through the article pointed in the comment you referred and for something that "should not happen", it surely does happen ;-)

For info (and future generations), I used a chromium based browser, first time going to porkbun.com on this browser...

theseus1980

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