VPN recs for travel

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Garrelli 5000
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12:57p, 10/3/23
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Any vpn recs for iPad use to watch youtubetv, Hulu, etc when in Italy?
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8:37p, 10/3/23
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Used ExpressVPN in Europe recently with good success.
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akaggie05
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9:15p, 10/3/23
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See if your home router supports acting as a VPN server. Something like OpenVPN or a generic L2TP server. That way you just connect back to your home internet and to any third party services it looks like you're sitting at home. And it's free.
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In reply to akaggie05 • 1:45p, 10/4/23
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akaggie05 said:
See if your home router supports acting as a VPN server. Something like OpenVPN or a generic L2TP server. That way you just connect back to your home internet and to any third party services it looks like you're sitting at home. And it's free.
There's one catch. If you have asynchronous Internet at home such as DSL or Cable Modem, sometimes the performance can be poor because your uplink speed is significantly slower compared to the downlink speed. The uplink will be used much more in this scenario than if you're at home. If you have fiber, you're set, because it's the same speed up and down.
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In reply to txam92 • 1:49p, 10/4/23
Not all fiber is created equal and asymmetric speets exist in fiber plans
If you have the upstream capability tailscale on a home machine configured as a gateway node works well and is trivial to set up
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In reply to UmustBKidding • 2:18p, 10/4/23
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UmustBKidding said:
Not all fiber is created equal and asymmetric speets exist in fiber plans
If you have the upstream capability tailscale on a home machine configured as a gateway node works well and is trivial to set up
Fair enough on the existence of fiber asymmetric plans. I do agree it's pretty easy to setup your own VPN server. Even some home routers support it natively or with an alternative software such as DD-WRT. A home machine would have more computing horsepower however.
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In reply to UmustBKidding • 2:49p, 10/4/23
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UmustBKidding said:
Not all fiber is created equal and asymmetric speets exist in fiber plans
If you have the upstream capability tailscale on a home machine configured as a gateway node works well and is trivial to set up for a network god like me.
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In reply to dubi • 3:41p, 10/4/23
I have enjoyed projects like adding vampire taps to ethernet trunks when the only brand machine that supported it were from xerox and technical support was call bob metcalfe. Even the transition of arpanet net from NCP to TCP/IP in 83 had its moments I promise tailscale is what i recommend to mortals they they need secure network transports without adding network rules, inbound NATs or router kernels. It wonderful how often it works and keeps my phone from ringing. But i do enjoy helping so please reach out, but if you need vpn connectivity from challenging locations tailscale is the bomb.
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4:25p, 10/4/23
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These little travel routers are the hot new bees knees. Can set them up to vpn all your traffic for all devices connected to it. Built off openwrt for their firmware. Set it up once to go through your home or provider and travel with it wherever you want.



GL.iNet GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX) Pocket-Sized Wi-Fi 6 Wireless Travel Gigabit Router OpenVPN, Wireguard, Connect to Public & Hotel Wi-Fi login Page (Captive Network), Repeater, Extender, Tethering, RV https://a.co/d/iBLjE9T
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3:36p, 10/5/23
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So I setup Express VPN on my iPad. The only issue is youtubeTV wants my exact location enabled when I try to watch a local channel.

How can I watch the bama game Saturday when it is on cbs?
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8:51p, 10/5/23
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7:40a, 10/6/23
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Using a VPN service to stream YTTV and such doesnt usually work becuase they block known VPN IP's.

Your best bet is going to be setting up a tunnel to your home network. Check out tailscale, it's a super easy to set up mesh VPN based on WireGuard.
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In reply to chilidogfood • 11:14p, 10/22/23
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This my exact situation.

I have Starlink in Mexico and YTTV doesn't work at all because of the geolocation. So, I was thinking of just getting a Roku here and then doing NordVPN.

So, that won't work to watch Aggie games if they're on local channels?

I guess I need to figure out how to tunnel back to my house. Sucks because it's going to slow things down a lot because of the up speed. I don't really want that.

I don't mind paying for a service like YTTV, but can't find one in Mexico. And I don't want to go back to satellite.

Any thoughts?
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In reply to FatZilla • 10:39a, 10/27/23
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FatZilla said:
These little travel routers are the hot new bees knees. Can set them up to vpn all your traffic for all devices connected to it. Built off openwrt for their firmware. Set it up once to go through your home or provider and travel with it wherever you want.



GL.iNet GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX) Pocket-Sized Wi-Fi 6 Wireless Travel Gigabit Router OpenVPN, Wireguard, Connect to Public & Hotel Wi-Fi login Page (Captive Network), Repeater, Extender, Tethering, RV https://a.co/d/iBLjE9T
I have one of these. Took it to Japan for two weeks and it was amazing. The newer model allows you to install Tailscale to be on the router itself, but I have Tailscale on all of my devices so that's nice when traveling (especially for my Pi-Hole).
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9:32p, 10/30/23
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I have one too and it's great. Even works with hotel captive portals.
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12:46p, 1/29/24
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Just a Thank You shout out. The Nerdery has helped me with stuff over the years.

Spot on with the VPN advice. I used an open port for SSH or OpenVPN for years, now switched to Tailscale.

Used the GL.iNet and now have these for work.
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