I use Surfshark, and the protocol options I have are: Open VPN TCP Open VPN UDP WireGuard

Which should I be using?

Also I have QbitTorrent (Win11), and was curious if the version mattered at all

  • CountVonEnglish
    1·
    5 hours ago

    However, it’s worth mentioning that WireGuard is UDP only.

    That’s a very good point, which I completely overlooked.

    If you want something that “just works” under all conditions, then you’re looking at OpenVPN. Bonus, if you want to marginally improve the chance that everything just works, even in the most restrictive places (like hotel wifi), have your VPN used port 443 for TCP and 53 for UDP. These are the most heavily used ports for web and DNS. Meaning you VPN traffic will just “blend in” with normal internet noise (disclaimer: yes, deep packet inspection exists, but rustic hotel wifi’s aren’t going to be using it ;)

    Also good advice. In my case the VPN runs on my home server, there are no UDP restrictions of any kind on my home network and WireGuard is great in that scenario. For a mobile VPN solution where the network is not under your control and could be locked down in any number of ways, you’re definitely right that OpenVPN will be much more reliable when configured as you suggest.