Looking at you Flint 3 DOWNGRADE!!!
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2·10 days agoMaybe easier to setup because routers that support vpns come with nice-ish web uis.
That said, if you have a server (pc, pi, etc), setting up wireguard with wg-easy is mostly painless (comes with a nice web ui), so there is no reason to replace your router in this case!
Instead of replacing a router, I’d prefer buying a pi anyways.
Unless you want to route all outbound traffic through a vpn with zero config on devices, I can’t see why you’d replace a router.
Final note: most people prefer hosting a vpn on a server, even if their router supports it as far as I’m aware at least (edit: this might be erong judging from the rest of the comments saying they use their router).
Unfortunately no software exists that is fully perfect in this regard (any program could have multiple bugs just waiting to be found), but jellyfin being open source puts it in a better situation for finding vulnerabilities sooner.
It’s honestly just a matter of how much risk you are comfortable with for using jellyfin on the open internet.
(If i remember correctly:) The unauthenticated routes thing can only be used for streaming your content without a login (if you can guess the contents ids on your server I believe).
In my opinion, it’s not worth the hassle of using a vpn because I don’t think this risk is worth mitigating with one.
But everyone has their own personal risk assesment of course.
P.s. Easier than a VPN, at least for logging in other users, would be to use some type of proxy authentication like Authelia. I believe jellyfin has a plugin you can use. It can be complicated to setup, but it’s an option. I believe it should protect all routes exposed by jellyfin so that solves the unauthenticated streaming issue. (I still dont think this is necessary but more choice for the risk-adverse!).
Not to mention how apparently 2.5 and 5ghz bands suffer on the Flint 3 just to get Wifi 7.
Hope no one’s buying them (though I imagine a lot of people see 3 > 2 and blindly trust it’s better in all cases).
Flint 3 probably would’ve been better as a different product line. As it currently stands, It seems a bit misleading to attach it to the Flint 2 when so much is different at its core.