Using a US starlink system in another country to access work servers

In that case, I wish you the best for your move!

OP says he’s allowed to work from wherever. If VPNs are blocked, this is the loophole. What would you suggest if you think this is shitty then?

Starlink always routes your communications to the nearest ground station. Use a VPN with an exit in the USA.

If you are in Ecuador, you will most likely be connected to some ground station located in Brazil (as the closest one). You can probably connect via VPN or create an RDP connection to your home PC in the US to do your business from there. But if you work in a heavily regulated industry (say, defense), this will only bring you troubles.

You, sir, are an idiot. Not because you don’t know how to use a VPN, but because you are considering so blatantly violating your company’s policy (and I presume your employer’s compliance with their customer’s requirements and/or the law, which could get much more than your employment in trouble).

I would highly advise against using a commercial VPN, because it can get flagged. What you need is a VPN on your home internet connection in the US, assuming you’re just traveling temporarily. I have a Firewalla box that lets me set up a VPN through my home internet connection so all the data is coming through my IP. I don’t use it for this use case (my employer is pretty permissive with international work, although there are prohibited countries), but it would well and would do what you need. If the traffic is coming from a US residential IP you’ll be fine. What will get you flagged is using something like Mulvad or any other commercial VPN, because the IPs addresses can be easily identified. Starlink has ground stations around the world, I don’t think it’s a guarantee that you’ll get an IP that’s geolocated to the US.

Whoops, wrong username? :grimacing:

This is traditional VPN … All those VPN provider thingies aren’t traditional…

He’s not allowed to work from anywhere. He states his boss doesn’t care as long as he doesn’t access data outside the US. Ergo he’s allowed to work anywhere in the US -only- which is not what he is trying to do here.

Companies that have this kind of restriction do so because they are required to, almost always due to national security reasons/federal contract law. He and his employer could get in serious trouble if they violate this. And they are not the first person to think a vpn will get around it either, Jesus. Use your heads folks.

The only correct answer is “don’t”.

I understand a vpn, which as I’ve addressed elsewhere, is not the end-all, be-all in this case.

I apparently didn’t log out of my account at the library. Not sure what this is about.

Eh. I meant “mass market nonsense you see on YouTube / podcast ads” so, fair enough. But if you want to argue semantics, this is wireguard, p2p with a software defined network layer atop loaded with advanced features.

Absolutely elements of traditional vpn. But the feature set without having to sling complex configurations and integrating additional services make it way beyond “traditional vpn”, imo, if we’re defining that as ‘I VPN’d into my office’ type deal.

Yeah didn’t want to argue, I just don’t like the nonsense VPN thingies :sweat_smile:

And on that, I’m soooo with you.
I really do dig Tailscales mullvad integration. $5 and no fancy frills. It’s just an exit node.