WireGuard generally doesn’t require any performance tuning to use. It’s been designed to work well on modern network stacks under a variety of different configurations. Sending traffic through its encrypted tunnel requires only a little bit of overhead, in the form of slightly higher CPU and network usage.

That said, there are a few things you can adjust if you are experiencing WireGuard performance issues. This article will walk you through some strategies to Testing and Tuning your WireGuard network performance.