If somebody could help me here. I have a router and I’m going to add nordVPN to it. My work have asked me to return to my home country to work but still work remotely, and it’s just not possible at the moment with children in school etc. I use my work’s equipment and the computer has a VPN I have to log into every day.
So my question is, if I connect to a router with a VPN on it masking the IP, will that work and give the impression to my employer that I have moved home? Or will the two VPNs cancel each other out or something.
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Best option would be to have someone in the target country operate a VPN from that country. It’s pretty easy to configure a synology nas or a mini pc like an intel nuc to be a vpn server. If anyone looks at your connection they would likely only see the connection originating from the residential ip address where your vpn server is operating.
Using a 3rd party service is not a good idea because it will be obvious you’re just masking your IP. You need a residential VPN on a router ideally at a friend or family member’s home to reflect that IP. Even then though, being on their radar already suggests they may be aggressive in validating your location. Probably wise to start looking for a new job that is more compatible with your needs.
If they have already asked you to move back, then the answer is sort of, but if they suspect that you’re lying, be aware that there probably is enough information in logs for them to show that you did not move back.
One prime item for this is your cell phone. If you’re working outside of the location they want you to be…do NOT enroll your mobile device in any company services.
If your phone logs in over cell vs Wi-Fi, that login location will show up in logs, proving that you’re lying to your employer.
If nord VPN ever disconnects, or for some reason connects to a different country’s exit node, then once again, this would be immediately apparent to your employer’s IT team.
I think hardware is more reliable than software. I found the safety feature would not work meaning my computer would be able to connect unsafely as it saw my employers VPN as safe. Which it obviously tells them exactly where I am.
I am using a pyramid wifi VPN router that has an ethernet leading to my main router and creating its own hotspot. There is also a switch on the side that will kill the internet if the protection breaks.
When is the deadline? Did you tell them it would take time to find a school and a house by this time? I think you can extend the deadline with that explanation.
Unless you want to stay there and the best is to change jobs. Good luck
It could definitely work, depending on which VPN protocol is used. However, what I used to do- not for work, but for being able to access certain online stores in my region- was have a small NAS (Synology in my case) at my house when I left with a custom VPN host installed. That way, I could just connect through my own home network and for all intents and purposes I was connecting from my house!
EDIT: Why the downvotes? Am I wrong? This is how I’ve been doing it for years when I travel. I don’t need to pretend to be in my own house for my work though, so.
I’d recommend running the vpn to a friends house in the country you should be in. NordVPN and the like tend to use IP addresses which are known to be associated with VPN providers.
I wouldn’t take a chance especially this relates to you going back to your home country, so taxations and other regulations could become a concern. Also, there are other means for your employers to track if they want to.
You could set up a point to point VPN from your out of country router to your home router, this would make the endpoint when you connect from your company VPN your ‘usual home ISP’ much harder to trace than a service like Nord etc. Incredibly simple and secure to do it with the likes of a couple of Draytek routers.
Using those publicly available software to bound to location would be highly risk as most of the enterprise grade security appliances has capability to identify those software giving you anonymity options.
For your problem of your solution, the best and feasible to me is to have virtual machine deployed in your home country from your choices cloud service provider (Microsoft azure, Amazon’s aws , google cloud) and have vpn session established to your organisations network. You will have options to have static or dynamic public IPs from your home country region and that way you continue your work.
It may sound a bit pricy but less to coming back to your home country and resume working. I would recommend access those cloud service provider website and have yourself suitable tariff.
It will work but only so far as their ip address database. Connect to Nord in say New York and look at 10 different ip address location websites. You will see not all of them say you are in New York. We do this when we travel (we bring an actual router with us with Nord on it) and one time we noticed the ip address we set it to in New York had us listed in the uk.