I have an OpenVPN server setup at home on my ASUS router. I downloaded the configuration fill on my laptop and, while away from home on a friend’s wifi network, connected using OpenVPN Connect. The status shows that I am connected to my home server. Just to make sure, I looked up the server IP shown in the OpenVPN profile and, indeed, it is in my hometown. However, once connected, I noticed that I could not stream geofenced content from my home ISP and so I went to whatismyipadress.com and it revealed the IP of the network I am connected to at my friends house in another state. Same thing happens when I use OpenVPN Connect on my cellphone while connected to his home router. Interestingly, when I disconnect my phone from his wifi and just use the cellular network and OpenVPN it shows a completely different state as the location (neither my friend’s nor my home state). I’ve tried to find help on the OpenVPN website but to no avail.
You need to enable full tunnel, probably set to split tunnel. This is configured on your VPN server.
Any chance someone could explain this entire process to me? I’m not pc illiterate but recently built my first and don’t know much. The reason being is I travel for work, but recently started online therapy. The issue I’ve ran into is when I’m out of state my therapist cannot have a session due to them not being licensed in the state I’m currently in (some sort of technicality in the laws that could get them in trouble). I feel like I could just do something similar to this to ping my ip from home regardless of where I may be. I obviously wouldn’t inform them of this in any way keeping them clear while also being able to receive the treatment I most definitely feel I need considering there are probably very few, if any, therapists that would be licensed in every single state I happen to be working in at the time.
Do you have a VPN router at home?
Thanks, I’ll give that a shot.
That worked, thanks. The setting was labeled “Client will use VPN to access” and then there are two options: “Local network only” and “Internet and local network”. Not sure why I didn’t notice that I had the wrong one selected. I appreciate your help.
I appreciate your previous help. I have a new issue. All was working fine with streaming over OpenVPN until recently and now I get an error message that I am not connected to my home network. so now I cannot stream geofenced content on Xfinity. I’m clearly connected to my OoenVPN server on my ASUS router (I don’t use the Xfinity router)
Worked for me, thanks!