Openvpn or wireguard on aws free tier

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Hi. All I would like to set up a vpn on amazon free tier

These are the 2 options for wireguard and openvpn

On the AWS marketplace there is WarpSpeed VPN as well as OpenVPN Access Server, for wireguard and openvpn respectively. They are both free.

I understand openvpn allows for two seperate conections.
does wireguard allow for multiple seperate connections?if so how many.

I would like for my home, and my two sisters homes to be connected to a vpn through openwrt routers.

Any recomendation of which is better openvpn or wireguard.
my main reason for setting up the vpn is to avoid geo blocking.

From what I read online wireguard is faster and easier to implement. Is this correct.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Wireguard. You will need to create a connection for each router pair to make a site-to-site connection. Then add routing tables/rules to make sure that traffic between LAN’s goes over the correct wireguard tunnel.

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So you would have one incoming tunnel with two clients and two outgoing tunnels with one connection per network. Also think about #1 why you are using a AWS VPS for wireguard if everyone is already running openWRT and #2 how you will handle maintaining the connection if everyone is on a consumer ISP that doesn’t provide static IP addresses.

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I am trying to connect all 3 openwrt routers to a vpn that is located on a server in the USA. this is because I want all of us to have security as well as the ability to avoid geo blocking. I want us to be able to access streaming services in the USA.

We do not have high-bandwidth connections. from what I understand vpn companies are being blocked by streaming services. Also I dont want to pay for three different vpn accounts

Am I wrong in assuming this can be done by using a vps located in USA and connecting to it using a vpn

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Well in that case then easy enough. I would still uses wireguard and then just connect all the home LAN to the VPS and then use it as the exit node. If openwrt supports tailscale that might be the better option for what you are doing here.