I have a commercial vpn but it doesn’t work. Is there a way around this? I know that commercial VONs can be detected because they use blocks of IPs, is there something so can set up to circumvent this?
I use a WireGuard VPN server on my home router and can remote into that and loop back out to my home country from my client from anywhere in the world. As far as any internet service knows, I’m at home.
If using mobile, spoof the satnav geolocation if that’s going to be a problem. There’s GPS apps for that. Also you might need to sync your client’s time to your home server, not the local real time. There’s nothing you can do about hop count and packet delays.
If your IT department is halfway decent they will figure out what you are doing. We don’t get many people that try this but it has happened a few times. We no longer allow BYO device and only our laptops can connect so that has made it much easier to detect this.
Reset the counter.
This seriously gets posted daily in this sub.
There are a number of reasons why this is a bad idea.
is there a way around this?
You can get around this by staying in your country of origin, or finding another job.
Yes, Tailscale or WireGuard on a router that supports it would be essentially indistinguishable from a regular IP. However, depending on the job, this could be considered fraud & is probably a bad idea.
I think the most undetectable method would be a desktop in a country of origin that you connect to via e.g. teamviever from remote location?
I have gone with similar situation what you can do is setup a paid proper proxy with browser of your choice or you can setup the VPS too to your desired location but VPS is slow.
Also you can use some premium VPNs for this
I can help if you want to show your employer your country of origins location while you travel the world.
Vpn router with a failsafe seems to work pretty well, we can’t really detect on that, are you able to?
Well, this is literally the most important use for a VPN if you’re an American (the primary reddit audience).
I can understand needing a VPN for other cases if you’re stuck in China or Iran etc, but if you’re American the main reason to use the VPN is to hide your location from an employer.
We should show solidarity here instead of helping corporate overlords.
Honestly, this is the correct answer.
How would they be able to find out though?
There are plenty of methods (most which are not absolute evidence but enough to raise suspicion). Let’s think this through
- You will never leak anything outside your VPN.
- Your VPN IP addy doesn’t end up on a list of known VPS providers.
- Your VPN IP address matches your home geo and ISP range.
- You don’t get flagged by DPI.
- Company is not monitoring your software installations.
Etc
We need a moderator bot that searches for the terms “my work/job country/state” and just deletes those posts.
I’ve told some US guy about my european seven weeks leave every year and he cried.
Eh, a vpn router won’t download software on your computer, just make sure you configure it to not route any traffic unless it’s through the vpn.
For the VPN IP, setting up a home router to forward your internet to from whatever location you’re at will make sure it doesn’t get flagged as a VPN.
Not too sure if DPI would be able to detect someone, you might be onto something there
Do you have any examples of laptops with a built in LTE modem that can be used for GPS?
I would be using my own laptop and there is no software involved, just the website.
Not talking about the vpn router installing