Hello everyone, hope you are doing great.

I am not sure if my question goes here, but this was my best guess. Apologies if I am wrong.

So, I have been using the mesh network offered by NordVPN alongside with their VPN subscription to sync some folders between my phone (Android) and my laptop (Linux Mint). This was great because I remember not being able to use Tailscale and VPN at the same time in the past, at least not on my phone.

Now they are dropping Meshnet support in December, so I am trying to figure out if there’s any way I can still run NordVPN and a Meshnet, or if I have to discard one.

If you know of any alternative, please let me know!

  • hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    i know there were a lot of recommendations for tailscale/headscale (and they’ll keep coming because it’s the current market darling) but i’ve found netbird to be more ergonomic for my needs.

  • freebee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    Yeah sad they’re stopping it. I used it to easily access all services when not home… Jellyfin, audio bookshelf, dashboards, nextcloud… All worked rather well on it with very little effort (just had to turn the meshnet feature off and on again on phone once in a while). I don’t think there is any other company offering anything as simple as this was…

  • MasterOKhan@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    7 days ago

    It might not be what you’re looking for, but tailscale offers end points where you can use mulvad vpn in conjunction with your tailscale network, might be worth looking into! I use it and it works great.

    Obligatory due to the sub we’re in. I don’t believe tailscale falls into the space of “self hosted”. You’d need to set up your own wireguard server for that.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Did both. Setting up your own VPN is a bit annoying but when it works it works. Tailscale is really easy and solid. For folder syncing I can recommend using tailscale and syncthing. Install both on both devices, then connect the devices in sync thing (it will reciprocate) and then you can add a folder and share it with the other device. Latency for syncing can be 10s-3min, plus the actual file transfer speed.

      Knowledge level: configuring software and setting up software. Maybe some basic network troubleshooting if it comes up.

      It’s never gonna be as easy as paying for a service that does it for you but this setup is also not that hard.

      If you have questions feel free to ask me or other nerds on here, I’m sure they can help you ^^~

      • Lemonade@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        In fact, it’s Syncthing what I use in LAN (mesh) mode. Thanks for the help :D

    • Lemonade@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I thought of that, my problem is that I have another year of NordVPN subscription paid, and I don’t want to waste it. But lesson learned, no more long subscriptions.

      Thanks for the clarification!

    • dparticiple@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      Fellow satisfied Tailscale user here. Worth noting that one can host a custom control plane server if desired, which in theory removes cloud dependencies for Tailscale from the equation: https://tailscale.com/kb/1507/custom-control-server. Use of Mullvad exit nodes is optional ($5 / mo for 5 machines at time of writing). I’m not sure if TS’ native exit node feature can be configured to use other/sepf-hosted VPNs, but I suspect this is not supported.