thats a pretty bad setup lol
Im sure NOTHING will happen anytime soon. Ive ‘vacationed’ many times without using personal VPN and never did anyone ask me anything. They have better things to do too, maybe like a vacationing themselves
Interested from any “experts” on how your company would know.
You were using a Mango, so you didn’t install anything on your machine.
I guess it is the same way Netflix knows, they generate lists of data center IP addresses that VPN servers use and flag those?
I am assuming you picked a sensible server from the VPN company’s offerings?
LTT did a piece a while ago on a P2P type VPN where individuals offer up their bandwidth.
I think the risks of my ISP flagging what some other guy used my internet for is too much a risk, particularly in the US.
You would also no doubt jump from state to state as the system has to find a new exit point if the guy you used yesterday is down.
But this would give you a residential IP address, solving the problem of blocking data centers.
Setting up a OpenVPN tunnel to a friend’s house,.or your own house back home is the best solution. My limited understanding is that this with a Mango should make the VPN part bulletproof?
Possible a corporation could use a SIM in the laptop or GPS to track it and still know you are abroad. And just to know, and remote lock a stolen machine. Any Fortune 500 IT nerds know if this is really a thing?
What was your vpn exit point, Vpn server installed at home back in country or a commercial vpn?
If latter very easy for IT department to detect it with off the shelf solutions, if former your IT department take security very seriously and be curious to see how detected
Really sorry about your situation and please keep us posted what happens. Your experience can be really helpful for everyone here to learn how to better navigate cloaking ourselves better while abroad, so don’t think this issue you’re facing is all going to waste. It’s a learning opportunity.
Dont use cheap shit. Or free things. Use a expensive vpn with dedicated ip
get a dedicated router from us. they will never figure it out.
there is a reason we are recommended by digital nomad vpn wiki
Ouch. Not directing this at you (you learned your lesson sorry) but people if you’re going to do this type of thing, PLEASE at least test your setups at home before trying to go abroad
Why don’t you setup your own wire guard or OpenVPN VPS? Set the hostname and IP PTR record to something like home.your-domain.com
I run through a computer at my home when abroad. On the other end looks like Comcast as usual.
Larger organizations subscribe to some VPN tracking services.
That is why you need keepmyhomeip
I tried the same shit. Cloud defender for apps blocks sharepoint resources automatically.
Azure has databse of vpn ip ranges. It’s better to avoid using commercial vpn.
I worked 3 months on commercial vpn because I used niche vpn - mullvad. The machine learning of azure blacklisted it after 3 months.
Did get caught once don’t know how but DNS leak as I hadn’t configured my gl inet properly.
Otherwise it is my view I should have setup my home vpn server.
Tip: don’t use Microsoft authenticator for security verification. Only use sms code.
what you really need is a wireguard VPN sever setup on your home location, maybe at a relative or a friends house.
Btw microsoft authenticator will also flag that your mobile is not geographically the same as your IP, so they can get you that way too when you have to use MFA.
Well, this is what happen to people that doesn’t know and pay too much for VPN’s like AzureVPN, NordVPN or ExpressVPN. Why you guys pay for those subscriptions? Even if you pay it is not really 100% trusted because you can go check ip2location.com/demo, you will see as Proxy Type (VPN) even if the IP was residential IPS. I’m actually using BrightVPN for free too much better i don’t even need an account to register or to login, and for me the best paid VPN is MysteriumVPN you can pay with credit card, PayPal or even crypto if you have, it is a serious project with good ip reputation by Mysterium Network, the nodes that you can see are the people who are sharing their ips, so when you check with ip2location you will find that it is Fixed ISP / Mobile ISP (which means residential ips). i hope i was helpful and i apologize for my english.
TorGuard has a service in which you can buy a residential IP address. So it looks like a home IP, it remains static though but that shouldn’t be a problem. Configure the router to that and you’re golden.
It sounds like you…did not run working remotely by your admin?
Tell the truth and you don’t have problems. I can’t believe so many people in this group don’t understand this. Take a job that matches your lifestyle. The organization might have things written into their contracts that preclude wandering into certain countries.
I would honestly just try a new company or even better, host your own VPN server and try again. If you get a ping from IT just say you were playing with your VPN to stream video.
Like, not much of a downside at this point and you can still hope to squeak past.
Not sure if this works but if the business asks why you logged in from the other country just say you were not in the other country but had used a VPN to buy something cheaply at domestic pricing. And then you had forgotten to turn the VPN off so you looked like you were abroad.
Excuse is just that your home router runs through a vpn to encrypt data.
The vpn to your home thing as mentioned above is the safest route. I’ll put another route here that’s easy but of course has its own drawbacks.
I carry an iPad (or MacBook) and Remote Desktop to my other computer at home (or friends home). I then initiate all activities from there. For example the app Jump is really speedy. It even sends the sound to the remote device. I’ve found no lag. I can even watch remote tv or videos. This also allows me to leave my laptop or work laptop at home which is secure and carry an iPad or clean laptop with me in case that gets stolen I won’t have security issues.
Fyi if using an iPad it does allow pencil gestures which is really handy. The iPad air allows a keyboard and mouse / pencil.
Just wanted to give an alternative. I’ve done this for years mostly without issue.