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The application process should be fairly pedestrian. On the homepage, click on the 'Join the Torus' link. You will be requested to provide some simple details. Please note that the username must be unique, and you will be prompted if it conflicts with an exis...

In the mid-90s, searching for web content was often a bit of a chore and was driven primarily by shared links from friends or groups, or by long lists of hyperlinks on home pages. Then we got webrings. A webring was beautifully simple: a circle of websites, li...

Nekotopia works with affordable MikroTik routers running RouterOS v7. These compact devices support WireGuard natively and provide a dedicated WAN and LAN port configuration for connecting your home server or vintage machine to the torus. Here are some widely ...

ASUS - Higher-end models (RT-AX86U, RT-AX88U, etc.) with firmware 388.x+ support WireGuard client and server. Their gaming routers are particularly good at it, getting 400-800 Mbps throughput. TP-Link - Some Archer models (AX55, AX73, and newer) have added Wir...

Desktop/Laptop: Windows (official client) macOS (official client, App Store) Linux (kernel-native since 5.6, also wireguard-tools) FreeBSD (kernel module) OpenBSD (kernel-native) Mobile: iOS (official app) Android (official app) Routers/Embedded: RouterOS (Mik...

This is a logical drawing, don't imagine for one second you're going to be seeing IP addresses, protocols and firewall access lists here.

Protocol VPN Protocol WireGuard (primary) Config Delivery Download .conf file from dashboard, import into any WireGuard client Endpoint MikroTik CHR router in AWS Encryption Curve25519 (key exchange), ChaCha20 (symmetric), Poly1305 (authenticati...

Feature 1:1 NAT Many:1 PAT (Masquerade) External IP per client ✅ Dedicated ❌ Shared Maps all ports ✅ ❌ Inbound without outbound ✅ ❌ Outbound ✅ ✅ Port filtering ✅ Optional ACL N/A Use case Servers, hosting, full access Outbound-only clients

Torus Pro provides a dedicated public IP address mapped directly to your device via 1:1 NAT. This means your equipment is reachable from anywhere on the internet — exactly as if it were plugged directly into a public network. Retro and legacy systems are typic...

Overview The Torus service provides secure, high-performance WireGuard connectivity using AWS EC2 and VPC infrastructure. This document outlines the service levels, availability targets, and performance expectations for all Torus tiers. Service Availability ...

Expected Latency by Region The following table shows typical round-trip times (RTT) from the Torus VPN endpoint (EU-West/Ireland) to major global regions: Region Location Average RTT Typical Range Western Europe London, UK 8-12 ms 6-15 ms Western Euro...

Tier Download Upload Concurrent Connections Torus Basic Up to 256Kbps Up to 256Kbps 1 device Torus Internet Up to 512 Kbps Up to 512 Kbps 1 devices Torus Pro Up to 1 Mbps Up to 1 Mbps 1 devices Custom bandwidth rates are available but discretiona...

Nekotopia operates a comprehensive monitoring infrastructure to ensure service reliability, performance optimisation, and proactive issue detection. Our telemetry stack is built on industry-standard open-source tools, providing real-time visibility into networ...

Infrastructure Metrics We collect the following metrics from our network infrastructure: Router Metrics (via MKTXP) Metric Category Data Points Retention Interface Statistics TX/RX bytes, packets, errors, drops 30 days WireGuard Peers Handshake time, ...

Public Access Anonymous read-only access is enabled for the public status dashboard, allowing users to verify service health without authentication. URL: https://www.nekotopia.io/monitoring/

Operational Purposes Collected telemetry data is used exclusively for: Service Reliability Real-time alerting on service degradation Capacity planning and resource allocation Incident root cause analysis Performance Optimisation Identifying network bott...

If you join the community, you'll be granted an account that lets you post pictures of your stuff, gear, and lab. Now, of course, the gallery is a public space, and there is a real opportunity for misuse, either accidental or deliberate. Therefore, some checks...

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For the forum, I was genuinely considering excluding this from the overall platform. There is a personal relationship between the Nekotopia platform patronage and that of the IRIXNet community. I wondered, therefore, whether it did not make sense to become an ...

In 2019, as part of my MSc Thesis (final year project) I built a layer-2 gaming LAN over tunnels and across the Internet. This platform allowed me to play Quake over TCP. There was some other fancy crap in there to simulate delay and loss to bring every player...