VPN to mask my location. Work computer is locked down tight. VPN via router?

Install outline vpn on a $5/month digital ocean droplet in data center of your choice, route your router traffic through the vpn.

You will have your own vpn for life.

Slate ax and slate ax. Could do beryl ax and slate ax but mexit on YouTube has a guide on the double slate ax.

As there are quite a few players in the VPN market, me and some other Redditors have created the VPN comparison table (you can find it here). It summarizes the key points of what you may be checking when buying a VPN and hopefully you’ll find it as a useful tool when choosing a VPN for yourself.

Does it let you install plugins on chrome? You can get Windscribe VPN on there, that’s how I bypassed it.

WRT based router with a VPN on it. Like this one I use:

GL.iNet GL-A1300 (Slate Plus)… Amazon.com: GL.iNet GL-A1300 Pocket VPN Travel Router - Portable Wi-Fi Router for Travel, Easy to Set up, Connect to Public & Hotel Wi-Fi login Page : Electronics

can you setup a wire guard vpn server at home? maybe with a ddwrt router? then use your cellphone to connect to your home vpn, and share the connection from your cellphone to your work laptop?

In this way you can travel all around the world, and your company will think you are at home

https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireguard

this eSim 4g portable wire guard router might be useful too

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-e750/

Step 1.

Create a vps in your favorite cloud hosting provider.

Step 2.

Install WireGuard and peer your laptop with this vps via vpn.

Step 3.

Send default route to the wg0 interface in your laptop.

You can use a VPN for sure, but at least at my company, they have alerts that will trigger as soon as VPN IP is used.

Find a vps in the location you’re looking for and create a tunnel to it. Have all local traffic flow through the vps. Or at least just that laptop.

The IP addresses and locations of almost all VPN server points of presence are well known and your company probably can determine when you are using one. They will soon know you’re likely not where you appear to be.

Core Transit will do a router based VPN for you if you’re tech savvy enough to implement your side of it.

Yup. Go read their wiki

There is a catch to that, the company, if they want to be curious, will know you connect through a VPN based on the ownership of the IP. In fact, many monitor those ranges strictly because a lot of attack vectors come from VPNs as you can imagine.

Only way around it is by creating your own VPN router using your home connection.

Install a VPN on your router and route your work computer traffic through it by MAC address

Or save time and just buy another router and after configuring it only connect your work laptop to that router, put the rest of the house through a separate router.

some phones can run on wifi and open a hotspot… this would be easiest option

wouldnt OP need to install a client on his work lappy to VPN to his home router?

Is this a thing? If I am from the states and use my hotspot in Europe for example, will I be able to connect to VPN there? My company has an official policy that you can’t work from over there, but my manager would not really care - I just need to be able to connect to VPN

I love my mobile gli.net router! I use it whenever I am at a hotel or use a public wifi network, then VPN to my home with all my devices. It’s also good that my phone only knows a couple wifi networks rather than searching for every network I’ve ever connected to telling random people where I have been.

The only way their software would detect it is if they had a black list of IPs for all VPN servers

I will never be “at home” though. I understand networking just fine. The VPN simply needs to give me an IP in a certain area of the country.